I might come back to this
I probably should. I just need some time to think about it, because I understand where they coming from, I'm just not feeling the destination.
from African American News&Issues
FATHER�S DAY 2003
�Man of The House� is becoming a misnomerBy BUD JOHNSON
African-American News & Issues
�The misogyny articulated by the hip hop generation comes from its marginalization by a welfare system that defines "family" as a woman with children and a check from AFDC or child support. It's not just the demise of work in urban American that has alienated Black men from the family-supporting and child-rearing positions they used to occupy with pride; it's a welfare/child support system that has substituted for them. It's 30-years of Black male dislocation that's moved us from the R&B of 25 years ago "Ain't No Woman Like The One I've Got" - to such lyrics as �Bitches Ain't Nuthin But Hoes and Tricks."
The foregoing prologue (that was lifted from a 1996 Washington Informer article), should make it obvious that this isn�t going to be a positive Father�s Day tribute, that have been a tradition since 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson approved of the idea.
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