As I write this, it’s been a week since pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, and life as we knew it—even in the midst of this already bizarre world of a deadly pandemic—crossed over into the truly surreal. Millions of words have been written trying to make sense of the fact that a sitting U.S. …
At this moment, it would be easy to say that America is broken, but the truth is we are not. Yes, these United States are dysfunctional. But we as a nation are the natural progression of how the U.S. was created and what happens when you never acknowledge or deal with the sins you committed …
If you confront any conservative pundit or politician with the reality of institutional racism, you will almost certainly hear about how absent Black fathers are the cause of most racial disparities—not the government, not society, not nearly half a millennium of enslavement, segregation, and disenfranchisement—but Black fathers. According to them, it is the irresponsibility of …