New York Strip Clubs: Holder should stop patronizing black dads for political points
If Holder and Obama feel compelled to criticize black men as a collective (rather than focusing on the positive things we do for the world), then I hope they don’t get offended when black men start criticizing right back. Given that his father was African (not African-American), the idea that President Obama has used his own father’s behavior to validate his critiques on the African-American male is incredibly problematic as well. Obama’s own experience communicates nothing about him ever being abandoned by an African-American male.
To talk about absentee fathers every time you discuss black men is like talking about strippers and prostitutes every time you refer to black women. Even the black women who don’t engage in such activity would become offended that the behavior of a subgroup has been consistently used to address the collective, or that black women are considered more likely to become strippers than white or Asian women. Mr. President, if you cannot also address the good things that black men do, then please do not address the negatives. Both you and Eric Holder are more intelligent than that, so it’s time for some personal responsibility.
See the full article from “The Grio”