Our Message to Black Fathers

Gentlemen, if you thought the biggest threat to us, as black men, is white police officers, who shoot us, while we are unarmed, every once and a while, we should look at what we do to ourselves every day! The things we do to each other, as black men, shows and demonstrates that we really hate ourselves. The killing of each other, is surely not a sign that we love self, but surely a sign that we hate each other. We hate what we see when we look into the mirror. We can't trust each other. We victimize ourselves and get upset when others victimize us, like the police. We chant that "Black Lives Matter" while we are the first to take black life away! We no longer recognize ourselves! We have joined gangs to fight and kill each other, over a street or a block, named after some white man. Imagine if as slaves, we killed each other representing our slave master's house or street. Is one slave better than the other? We are thinking like slaves! We are supposed to be free thinkers, fathers and protectors of our children, yet our children can't depend on us to protect them from ourselves or anyone else. In our thinking and current mindset, our black women have given up on us protecting them already. We are too busy smoking, drinking, drugging and cheating on them! So then what kind of man have we become? Our behaviors are not normal! Killing each other, is like killing ourselves and this is not normal behavior! We have been taught to hate self! Others also have been taught to hate us too! It is known that when a people hate us for who we are, we will not like being ourselves, unless we know who we are! If we don't know who we are, we will surely hate ourselves, just like everyone else hates us! We cannot say we love someone that we do not know. If we don't know ourselves, how can we love ourselves? Therefore, if I don't know you or me, I can't say that I love you or myself! However, I should not have any reason to hate you enough to kill you or hate myself enough to kill myself! Your struggle is the same as mine! You look like me and you live like me. When we are gunned down by white police officers, who hates the color of our skin, you think that officer is thinking that you're a special kind of black man, a special dark color, so he will not shoot you over selecting to shooting me? We both will be dead!  We both are in the same danger! We both grew-up in a single parent home. We both come from poor families. We both are decedents of slaves; yet we are our biggest enemy! Why are we not banding together for the betterment of all that looks like us and is our people? We really need each other for all of us to survive! Instead of doing something about our situation, we are taking it out on each other! There is not enough of us, that care about us! This is real talk! This is not who we are! As black men, we don't think this way, where we destroy our lives and the lives of our people and our own families! We rather see ourselves dead while every other nation is enjoying life with their families and loved ones. We don't really know what it feels like to love each other to death! To be loved by others in our community. To be brothers and care for one another, protect our woman and children, love our families and our children, like we say we love God! We don't know what this feels like! The good news is that we can learn how to do better! We can get to know and understand ourselves and others like us. We ask that you join us and bring change to self and your families in your community. The more we see ourselves change the more others will want to change. We need real black men to stand up! Let us make black man together. This is all of our Academy of Black Fathers. Lets support each other until we get better at being ourselves. Simply subscribe and we will contact you about enrollment, as a member of the Academy. We need leaders, trainers, thinking brothers, who want to bring new ideas and ways we can get back to ourselves. We help each other on anything and everything, black man our black women and family. Ask us about building an Academy in your community of color. We also go into the jails and prisons.  We need the talent of all of our people, so come my brothers and sisters, join the movement!