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Dear President Obama,
This open letter is penned to you in response to your recent chastising of the Black community in a speech you gave to a class of graduates of Morehouse College. Had I been a Black parent in the captive audience that day I would have walked out or stood up and turned my back to you. How dare you use racist stereotypes to chastise these young Black men on their day to celebrate earning their college degrees. Instead of congratulating them and their parents for this great accomplishment, you again fell into your tired old routine of telling the Black community in general to be responsible and stop using racism as an excuse. I do not see how that message is appropriate when despite the racism so evident in America, these young Black men and their families obviously did not let anything stop them from obtaining an education.
President Obama, we know you have "daddy issues" because your African Black father did not get along with your American White mother and the two decided to part ways. Maybe if he was not killed in a car accident in 1982 when you were 21 years old, you could have heard his side of the story on why they split up and developed a relationship with him.
Interestingly, I was 20 yrs old when I finally met my own father and have a relationship with him today. I asked him why he was not in my life growing up and he informed me that he did not know about me and when he heard about me, my mother told him to never try to contact me again. Therefore, I know what it is like to grow up without knowing your father.
Nevertheless, at the same time, I never stopped asking about him and finally my mother put me in contact with his family shortly before I was to ship off to basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC. I wonder if you sought out your father as I did and what may have prevented you from making that connection with him before he died? You had 21 years to do so. No I did not read your book but have listened to excerpts of the audio version and have never heard anyone speaking on that aspect of your life.
We also know you have issues rooted in the fact that your mother seemed more interested in her career as a CIA operative in Indonesia working for the United States Agency for International Development with you in tow. I wonder how you felt when your mother dumped you off on your grandparents who themselves held racist views about Black people. It could not have been easy and I am sure you are not telling us everything about their practicing racism and white supremacy. Getting back to your Black African father, I suspect more likely than not, they probably played a role in driving your father off being that he was such a dark skinned Black man. I’m sure they could not stand the sight of him and to know he was having sexual relations with their daughter, your mother. I am sure they filled you head with negativity when it came to conversations about your Black African father.
I can understand your mental illness and its possible causes when it comes to your apparent negativity towards the Black community in general and Black fathers specifically. This is not the first bash the Black father speech you have given as I have discussed them in past writings.
There are a few things I would like to suggest you do in terms of building a positive relationship with the Black community, which thus far to its detriment, has overwhelmingly supported your political career. Stop letting racist white people or Bill Cosby write your speeches that are targeting Black audiences and/or seek mental health treatment for your internal hatred of the Black community manifesting itself in these speeches.
The president of the United States has access to some of the best mental health care in the country, there is no excuse for you to not seek treatment for your many issues that you seem to be taking out on Black fathers and Black families pulling from racist stereotypes not based upon facts. To help you understand the carelessness of your attacks, allow me to share some of the research I uncovered a few years back about Black families and fathers.
According to the Census taken in 2000, “single black fathers raising children on their own comprise some 353,000, or nearly 16 percent, of single-father households”. I suspect with Black women becoming an increasing target of the United State’s prison industrial complex this figure has undoubtedly increased.
According to Boston University Professor Rebekah Levine Coley, who authored a study in 2007, “found that black fathers who don't reside in the home are more likely to sustain regular contact with their children than fathers of any other racial group”.
Dr. Paula Fomby of the University of Colorado in Denver tracked some 8,000 U.S. teens from adolescence in the mid '90s to young adulthood for seven years. The teens were tracked according to a geographical formula that included youth from across the nation. Dr. Fomby said in a prepared statement that, "We were interested in what distinguished white teenagers from black teenagers, and entertained various explanations offered by other research and theories. Our study reveals two findings. One, the sheer number of adults that are around to give teenagers or their parents support varies by ethnic or racial group".
I interviewed Dr. Fomby back in 2010 and during that program, she said that Black families seemed to provide more social protections for their children than other ethnic groups; specifically when measured against White families, Black youth were less likely to participate in risk behaviors because of family changes and/or lack of support. Listen to broadcast.
Dr. Fomby also said that other research shows that Black men appeared to show higher father involvement than White males and overall Black families provided more social protections regardless of income status.
In closing Mr. Obama, Black father to Black father, man to man, let this serve as notice that there are those in the Black community who know fact from fiction and we will not tolerate the denigration of our community or the demonization of our image. It seems that you have earned a reputation about not wanting to discuss race in America unless you are spewing racial hatred and venom our way instead of addressing the very real institutional racism Blacks and other non-white people face on a daily basis but somehow still able to provide emotional and financial support for our families and more than any other racial group in this country.
It would be a great step in the right direction if your administration set about working on the release of Black fathers and mothers whom a recent appeals court determined are eligible for a sentence reduction and/or release from the prison plantation who were enslaved under racists 2006 drug war laws. By the way, only 39% of crack cocaine users are Black so why do they make up the majority of the arrests and convictions. Maybe New York City Mayor Bloomberg can answer that question for you.
Sincerely,
Scotty Reid
http://blacktalkradionetwork.com/page/a-black-father-s-open-letter-5262013
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Dear President Obama,
This open letter is penned to you in response to your recent chastising of the Black community in a speech you gave to a class of graduates of Morehouse College. Had I been a Black parent in the captive audience that day I would have walked out or stood up and turned my back to you. How dare you use racist stereotypes to chastise these young Black men on their day to celebrate earning their college degrees. Instead of congratulating them and their parents for this great accomplishment, you again fell into your tired old routine of telling the Black community in general to be responsible and stop using racism as an excuse. I do not see how that message is appropriate when despite the racism so evident in America, these young Black men and their families obviously did not let anything stop them from obtaining an education.
President Obama, we know you have "daddy issues" because your African Black father did not get along with your American White mother and the two decided to part ways. Maybe if he was not killed in a car accident in 1982 when you were 21 years old, you could have heard his side of the story on why they split up and developed a relationship with him.
Interestingly, I was 20 yrs old when I finally met my own father and have a relationship with him today. I asked him why he was not in my life growing up and he informed me that he did not know about me and when he heard about me, my mother told him to never try to contact me again. Therefore, I know what it is like to grow up without knowing your father.
Nevertheless, at the same time, I never stopped asking about him and finally my mother put me in contact with his family shortly before I was to ship off to basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC. I wonder if you sought out your father as I did and what may have prevented you from making that connection with him before he died? You had 21 years to do so. No I did not read your book but have listened to excerpts of the audio version and have never heard anyone speaking on that aspect of your life.
We also know you have issues rooted in the fact that your mother seemed more interested in her career as a CIA operative in Indonesia working for the United States Agency for International Development with you in tow. I wonder how you felt when your mother dumped you off on your grandparents who themselves held racist views about Black people. It could not have been easy and I am sure you are not telling us everything about their practicing racism and white supremacy. Getting back to your Black African father, I suspect more likely than not, they probably played a role in driving your father off being that he was such a dark skinned Black man. I’m sure they could not stand the sight of him and to know he was having sexual relations with their daughter, your mother. I am sure they filled you head with negativity when it came to conversations about your Black African father.
I can understand your mental illness and its possible causes when it comes to your apparent negativity towards the Black community in general and Black fathers specifically. This is not the first bash the Black father speech you have given as I have discussed them in past writings.
There are a few things I would like to suggest you do in terms of building a positive relationship with the Black community, which thus far to its detriment, has overwhelmingly supported your political career. Stop letting racist white people or Bill Cosby write your speeches that are targeting Black audiences and/or seek mental health treatment for your internal hatred of the Black community manifesting itself in these speeches.
The president of the United States has access to some of the best mental health care in the country, there is no excuse for you to not seek treatment for your many issues that you seem to be taking out on Black fathers and Black families pulling from racist stereotypes not based upon facts. To help you understand the carelessness of your attacks, allow me to share some of the research I uncovered a few years back about Black families and fathers.
According to the Census taken in 2000, “single black fathers raising children on their own comprise some 353,000, or nearly 16 percent, of single-father households”. I suspect with Black women becoming an increasing target of the United State’s prison industrial complex this figure has undoubtedly increased.
According to Boston University Professor Rebekah Levine Coley, who authored a study in 2007, “found that black fathers who don't reside in the home are more likely to sustain regular contact with their children than fathers of any other racial group”.
Dr. Paula Fomby of the University of Colorado in Denver tracked some 8,000 U.S. teens from adolescence in the mid '90s to young adulthood for seven years. The teens were tracked according to a geographical formula that included youth from across the nation. Dr. Fomby said in a prepared statement that, "We were interested in what distinguished white teenagers from black teenagers, and entertained various explanations offered by other research and theories. Our study reveals two findings. One, the sheer number of adults that are around to give teenagers or their parents support varies by ethnic or racial group".
I interviewed Dr. Fomby back in 2010 and during that program, she said that Black families seemed to provide more social protections for their children than other ethnic groups; specifically when measured against White families, Black youth were less likely to participate in risk behaviors because of family changes and/or lack of support. Listen to broadcast.
Dr. Fomby also said that other research shows that Black men appeared to show higher father involvement than White males and overall Black families provided more social protections regardless of income status.
In closing Mr. Obama, Black father to Black father, man to man, let this serve as notice that there are those in the Black community who know fact from fiction and we will not tolerate the denigration of our community or the demonization of our image. It seems that you have earned a reputation about not wanting to discuss race in America unless you are spewing racial hatred and venom our way instead of addressing the very real institutional racism Blacks and other non-white people face on a daily basis but somehow still able to provide emotional and financial support for our families and more than any other racial group in this country.
It would be a great step in the right direction if your administration set about working on the release of Black fathers and mothers whom a recent appeals court determined are eligible for a sentence reduction and/or release from the prison plantation who were enslaved under racists 2006 drug war laws. By the way, only 39% of crack cocaine users are Black so why do they make up the majority of the arrests and convictions. Maybe New York City Mayor Bloomberg can answer that question for you.
Sincerely,
Scotty Reid
http://blacktalkradionetwork.com/page/a-black-father-s-open-letter-5262013