And ain’t it shameful how niggas blame hoes for givin’ birth
To a baby that took two to make
Coward nigga, you a fake
How you gon look in your son’s face and turn your back?
Then go start another family dog, what type of shit is that? - J.Cole
Recall for me, if you will, the Cosby Show. The Huxtable family was the picture perfect image of the “black family”, a father who was a physician, a mother who was an attorney, and five attractive, intelligent children. They lived in a brownstone in New York, never wanting for anything. A young black girl living in welfare housing watching the Cosby Show on a small eighteen inch television straining to hear over her other six siblings wishes that she could just jump into the television and become part of the Huxtable family. To this little girl the family’s most prized possession isn’t their big beautiful home, although it would be a nice change from her small dilapidated one bedroom house, it is not the meal that Clair Huxtable fixes every night, although to that little girl it would be nice not to go to sleep hungry wondering when her next meal would be, its Heathcliff Huxtable, the father. All the young girl wants is a father, a loving caring father, who is there for her, her siblings, and her mother, a father that she knows. Unfortunately, the image of the Huxtable family does not exist in more than half of the African- American population. There are too many fathers missing in too many lives and homes of the children that they helped conceive. They have abandoned their responsibilities and because of this the foundation of the black family is weaker.
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