Oh Gawdd!!!!!...absentee fathers never existed untill black people came along?
While a legitimate problem nation wide, why are black people singled out??..oh right, it's acceptable if some of those people do it but unacceptable when black people do it,right?
Why do some white men totally abandone their children and refuse to aknowledge them?
It has been claimed that plantation owners were often the fathers of slave children. Harriet Jacobs, a house slave in Edenton, North Carolina, claimed that when she reached the age of fifteen, her master, Dr. James Norcom attempted to have sex with her
." Several of the young slaves gave into his demands. Harriet points out in her autobiography: "My master was, to my knowledge, the father of eleven slaves."
Olaudah Equiano was a slave who witnessed the rapes of slave women: "While I was thus employed by my master, I was often a witness to cruelties of every kind, which were exercised on my unhappy fellow slaves. I used frequently to have different cargoes of new Negroes in my care for sale; and it was almost a constant practice with our clerks, and other whites, to commit violent depredations on the chastity of the female slaves;
I have even known them to gratify their brutal passion with females not ten years old."
So just maybe some of these "black men" are prepetuating a cycle they learned from "white men".
Slave Breeding
The Myth of the Missing Black Father
"The Absent Black Father," black men have become the symbol of fatherlessness. Consequently, they are rarely depicted as deeply embedded within and essential to their families of procreation. This stereotype is so pervasive that when black men are seen parenting, as Mark Anthony Neal (2005) has personally observed in his memoir, they are virtually offered a Nobel Prize.
While it would be remiss to argue that there are not many absent black fathers, absence is only one slice of the fatherhood pie and a smaller slice than is normally thought. The problem with "absence," as is fairly well established now, is that it’s an ill defined pejorative concept usually denoting nonresidence with the child, and it is sometimes assumed in cases where there is no legal marriage to the mother. More importantly, absence connotes invisibility and noninvolvement, which further investigation has proven to be exaggerated (as will be discussed below). Furthermore, statistics on children’s living arrangements also indicate that nearly 41 percent of black children live with their fathers, either in a married or cohabiting couple household or with a single dad.
The Myth of the Missing Black Father
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