Void? Wanting to be a daddy's girl and having my father's validation is the only void there is. Last time I checked, only one of us is working 2 jobs and in school. Only one of us is struggling. I'm sorry my mom didn't just sit at home and look pretty. She actually built her own life and didn't accept settling as the best option. Does your soul burn to know that a woman could adequately provide and raise a family better than any "man?"FAH1223 wrote:
Upward mobility is tough for any people of color. White privilege is everywhere you turn.
And more often than not it's a lack of a father that causes destructions of the family unit. The African American community is the perfect example of that with their women running around everywhere and their boys going to jail or being useless. Somalis have replicated it to a point with many men abandoning their families leaving a void that Hooyo can't do by herself esp when she has 6 kids to feed.
What is your obsession with trying to make African Americans seem less well-to-do than you are? Newsflash, you're black! White America has an equal disdain for anyone originating from Africa. And no, single-parent families is a very new concept in African American family life. You're overlooking systematic and institutional factors outside the family (i.e. housing, education, criminal justice system). Don't make this just a race thing. It has more to do with class than race. Bitch.