Why are Our Daddies Missing? A New Film Tries To Find Out Why

October 30, 2011 By Staff 13 Comments

Squeaky Moore and Ashley Shante are making things happen with the new film, “Father’s Day?” The film explores the impact of fatherless homes on Black Americans. A behind-the-scenes clip is below. The bottom clip is the trailer for the film.

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Dhicks1962

Fatherless home, I want to discuss black men with white women…Yesterday I was at the mall and every other black man was with a white woman…I was like, WOW..

Larry

ok, why do you think black men are with white women?

MS ROEMARY

BECAUSE LARRY, AS HERMAN CAIN WOULD SAY,THEY ARE BRAIN WASHED! C’MON, THIS IS’NT ROCKET SCIENCE.
Makar

They are with white women for all sorts of reasons. There is not one de-facto answer to explain this problem. However, I believe that one real reason is because they don’t really value themselves personally and then racially. We live in a society that tells us overtly, covertly, and subliminally that we are “less than”. This message is everywhere and at every turn!! If you do not value yourself how can you value people who look like you? Somehow marrying a white women… even one most white men wouldn’t want makes them feel better about themselves.

I don’t know why but at the very core of who I am I have never wanted anyone but a black women. She is the only one who can really understand my struggle. I need that!! America is too unsympathetic to my plight to come home everyday to someone who cannot begin to understand who I really am and how deep the my pain may run. If I have to go to battle to fight for who I my existence, I truly believe that only a black women can have my back!!

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QXM4FMW4IGFZFXH3QOXNXGZNVQ Hmmm

I agree with you and want to add that many do not want any part of the black experience.
Free

Thank you. I am a Black woman who simply adores Black men and I have NEVER heard such beautiful powerful words expressed by a Black man before. Thank you.

BB2Tutor

Women net to stop having babies when they are not in a committed relationship. ”I love the way you _______ is not the sign of a committed relationship. Black women need to expand their perspective and date all races of men. Being bitter because there aren’t enough black men around won’t make more black men that are FATHER material.
We need to get over ourselves, become the best us that we can be and the right will be there. If he takes a while to show up, we will be busy doing other important things like… living!
Anonymous

Easy answer and it’s not all the fault of black women who are having the babies.
The women want to be loved and have some security in this life.Overall,black america has been tricked and souled out since the late 60′s. Trying to live some outdated scheme called the dream is not solving the real problems of black america.
The average poor black person does not even know what a paradigm shift is.ole slavemaster has changed the overall game up on black america.While black america
was busy buying and smoking crack,watching nba basketball,watching self destuctive drama talk show’s and running back and forth to some church hollering for god and jesus.slavemaster has came out with his real agenda to stay in power and in control.
Disunity and basically sell-out type ignorance has become the order of the day among the black masses on a large scale..This is why black father’s are missing.
Black women, if anything let themselves get tricked into this careerism,get a job,get a house and little money and this opinion of ” I don;t need a black man ” .
The whole ignorant syndrome was promoted on all these dumb talk show’s and these ignorant urban ghetto books

Makar

Okay Soul60… Reading your comments are not indicative of the largest part of our culture. Yes there is a very VISIBLE group of black people who get all of the attention but MOST of the people I know (I am African American with a lovely African American wife) are hard working folk who just want to raise their children.

A blind man could see that control has always been the agenda these white folk! Rush Limbaugh has been trumpeting this fear campaign since he started and has made a lot of money doing it. “We are going to become extinct” has been his cry from the start. When Pres. Obama was elected all Limbaugh had to say “You see… I told you so… I was right all along!!” White folk love his crap!!

I came from a home with two parents in the house who never exhibited any affection for each other in my presence. My father was a newborn when his mother died in the unsanitary sharecropper system. My father’s father was murdered two weeks after his mother’s death! Tell me that he could be a normal man with those beginnings. But here is what I never saw… I never saw him abuse my mother, nor did he abuse me or my sister. Yes we are victims of a system that did not want us other than to exploit us as free labor this is true! But at some point we have got to wake up! If we are expecting these white folk to solve our problem we are doomed! At some point we have got to stop our own self destruction. My father could have been abusive and could have blamed it on his childhood (one that had him and his siblings passed from one relative to the next) But he didn’t. I am a fairly well adjusted person today because of my parents. But regardless of that I still have choices of my own to make. If TV and ghetto books are what is making us who we are again, we are doomed!! I believe that you are wrong… Most of us want to do better.. I have to believe that!!

KDF6

Black America lives what is seen. Should the blame be placed on the inadequate psycho-analysis of black relationships, black fatherhood/motherhood, babies having babies or individually/collectively distrust & disrespect. I being the father of four boys and two girls, which are young in age, have arrange my children as a higher priority than thethe relationship with their mothers, five baby momas. With each I’ve tried to places our child(ren) first. What I have found that in relationships there must be a common objective in other to ascertain some type of harmony in the relationship. We must look in the mirror at self and analyze self. It’s all about manhood. Being a provider and a protector of one’s offspring. I pay child support, but its more to than that. Its teaching morality, respect, sustainablity, companionship, & love. Fatherhood to me is the genealogy of lasting life for through our offspring we live on. The problems in relationships are based in the changing wants, needs, & desires in the individual that lives what is seen.
Miles410

I agree with Makar? But it’s hard to find one who isn’t still trying to raise a grown child they should have kicked out 10 yrs ago, or find one who isn’t raising the grandchild their grown child has abandoned. or one who must report their every thought or need to their “girlfriends”, another group of no man having clucks. or ones whose heads are so far up some pastors behind that they see going to dinner as fornication! Black women need to get over their narciscism and realize there’s more to friendship and then love than just showing up.

Makar

Miles410.. sometimes it’s narcissism coupled with nihilism.

What it is going to require is a strong and patience man with a clear idea of what he wants, who is NOT willing to quit until he gets it!!

But you are right I have no idea where this narcissistic attitude comes from. A lady might be fine, but if that is all you bring to the table that ain’t enough!! (Hypothetically speaking) I need depth, heart and passion, not just your goods (if you know what I mean)!!

http://twitter.com/EbonyCali Ebony

It takes two to make a baby. Now I’m not blaming the ladies but please stop having babies by men that don’t even like you. If they don’t even like you how will they even like your child? It’s not fair to that child to be born without a father who doesn’t even give 2 cents about him or her. So ladies, please, stop having babies by men who don’t like you.