Sunday
Jun172007
Black Bloggers Honoring their Fathers! Happy Father's Day.
Sunday, June 17, 2007 at 10:33AM The Blogmother
We pause our regularly scheduled program to say HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! Daddy, who knew that when you let us play around on your Commodore 64 that I'd end up doing this? Folks call your Daddy today. NO, an e-card does not count!
Concrete Loop has a lovely collage of fathers with their children. So does Young Black and Fabulous. Highbrid Nation has a audio/visual tribute ( That Luther Vandross made me cry.) So does the Fort Wayne African-American Independent Woman.
Mirror on America has a lovely post written by Rikyrah and includes suggested reading. Kyra Gaunt talks about reconnecting with her birth Father after 40 years over at BlackProf.
The Republic of T has a lovely post about being a father so does Marty. The Field Negro has a post about his Father's Day that could have been. African American Dad has a tongue-in cheek ( I hope) post about the disparity in treatment for Father's Day versus Mother's Day. ( Guilty as Charged!) Booker Rising has a post about Barak Obama urging Black Fathers to be responsible.
Kate/A/blog has a response to Obama's call.
Clutch has a post about a publication, "I am a Father, Celebrating African American Fathers," which has testimonies by and about Black Fathers. I don't know if they are all African American, but The Blogfathers Blog has a varied and often hilarious send up of Father's Day. Cool Cards has either a fascinating or disturbing ( depending on how you view it/ I can see it both ways) post on the Mahogany line of Hallmark having cards for Mothers on Father's Day. In the age of a majority of Black children being raised in single-parent families its a nod to the reality of many children on Father's Day.
Whew! I'm tired now. Luv ya Daddy!
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Concrete Loop has a lovely collage of fathers with their children. So does Young Black and Fabulous. Highbrid Nation has a audio/visual tribute ( That Luther Vandross made me cry.) So does the Fort Wayne African-American Independent Woman.
Mirror on America has a lovely post written by Rikyrah and includes suggested reading. Kyra Gaunt talks about reconnecting with her birth Father after 40 years over at BlackProf.
The Republic of T has a lovely post about being a father so does Marty. The Field Negro has a post about his Father's Day that could have been. African American Dad has a tongue-in cheek ( I hope) post about the disparity in treatment for Father's Day versus Mother's Day. ( Guilty as Charged!) Booker Rising has a post about Barak Obama urging Black Fathers to be responsible.
Kate/A/blog has a response to Obama's call.
Clutch has a post about a publication, "I am a Father, Celebrating African American Fathers," which has testimonies by and about Black Fathers. I don't know if they are all African American, but The Blogfathers Blog has a varied and often hilarious send up of Father's Day. Cool Cards has either a fascinating or disturbing ( depending on how you view it/ I can see it both ways) post on the Mahogany line of Hallmark having cards for Mothers on Father's Day. In the age of a majority of Black children being raised in single-parent families its a nod to the reality of many children on Father's Day.
Whew! I'm tired now. Luv ya Daddy!
Today is Day 2 of BET SPONSOR WATCH. Turn in your homework people!
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First-- I just discovered your show-- love it! And I'll help to spread the word.
I was intrigued by your show with the Soul Planet tour guide. I teach a 3-week course in Paris on African and African American writers in Paris (I just came back in May from being with a group of 13 undergraduates, most of them members of my college's Black Student Union) and I was a little disturbed by the superficial treatment of black Paris by the tour guide. There were several stereotypes and inaccuracies (starting with her pronunciation of the name of the river which runs through Paris-- it is SIN and Josephone Baker is still everywhere as an icon of Paris-- from postcards to the sold-old show at the historic Opera Comique which my class saw-- "Au Recherche de Josephine" and which has been nominated for the equivalent of the French TONY awards) and little suggestion of rich and vibrant black presence in Paris-- past and present. Even in a few days, one can can go beyond the usual tourist experience in Paris-- visit the wonderful museum which calls itself the only museum of the black diaspora, Musee Dapper; look at the exhibits on the influence of African art on Picasso at the Picasso Museum-- etc.
Also, as an African American who has spent quite a bit of time in Paris, some of the generalizations about Parisians were outdated and stereotypical. Today's Paris is a wonderful, complex, multicultural city, and that doesn't seem to come across in the Soul Planet tours.
That said, kudos to the sister for her tour company's work in expanding the horizons of Ameircan travellers. I'd love to do her Brazil tour-- so my criticisms are just about the Black Paris tour. So please pass these comments on to her in the spirit of sisterhood~
Claire
As a black man who's father really wasn't there while growing up. I'm not bitter and I'm proud of those guys who are really holding it down and when I have kids I plan to hold it down too. As black men we gotta remember that keeping up with your child support doesn't make you a good dad, being there for your children makes you a good dad.
Over at Highbrid Nation we honor the men who are truly taking care of business.
listened to your show today. wonderful show.... thank you so much ...ASANTE SANA...
i too, did a father's day entry.
http://selfra.blogspot.com/2007/06/fatherhood-my-father-and-i-do-not-have.html