Fathers DAY MESSAGE
The meaning of Father is one who takes the family and individuals in the family further especially the sons. The father is both protector, provider and maintainer of the family. Today in a society that deals with individuality the role of the father is becoming almost extinct especially in the black family. The statistics indicate that over 50 per cent of black families are headed by a female which causes many of the social ills that has affected our communities and continues to affect our communities. Even in cases that the father is present it is as if he is not there, he almost becomes the invisible man within the confines of his household and his family. The Willie Lynch syndrome has made the black woman more aggressive because she was put in a role on the plantation to protect the black man because the so called “slave master� was always plotting to destroy the black man. For those readers who read the Bible, Pharoahs decree a law to kill all the boy babies and spare the female and in present society he is still killing the black man through the many killings we are witnessing with the latest being George Floyd out of Minnesota. Unfortunately, there have been many George Floyds. Along with the mass murders, now through the chemicalization of foods and drug, Pharoah is effeminizing the black man causing more separation within the nuclear family. Yet with all these conditions and there are others such as domestic violence, abandonment of children, massive incarceration, massive unemployment, and massive disenfranchisement, black men who have the will continue to take on the role of Father and raising their children, protecting and respecting his wife and his daughters. The father in the black community is unique and necessary to ensure a decent, safe, nurturing, spiritual environment to ensure that the cycle of fatherhood continues. Min Ralph Muhammad
