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Attorney General Eric Holder called on absentee black fathers yesterday to take an active role in their children’s lives, Newsday reported today.

Holder, a Queens native and the first black Attorney General, urged the 400 worshippers at the Memorial Presbyterian Church on Baldwin Turnpike in Queens, N.Y., to orchestrate a “spiritual awakening,” according to the New York newspaper. The Attorney General said a father’s involvement in a family can help combat poverty and crime in black neighborhoods, according to Newsday.

“Too many men in the black community have created children and left them to be raised by caring mothers. These women do a wonderful job, but we ask too much of them and too little of our men,” Holder told the congregation, which included members of his family, according to Newsday. “It should simply be unacceptable for a man to have a child and then not play an integral part in the raising and nurturing of the child.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Earthie/ Earthie

    Eric Holder is a JOKE! I am positive there are as many dead beat white dads as there are blacks! His message should be to ALL DEAD BEAT DAD’S!

    What’s WORSE is that the UNEMPLOYMENT RATE for Black males is twice that of white males, therefore, contributing financially to the household is next to impossible, unless they go out and commit crimes, or sell drugs! Yes, they could babysit, but I am certain, they rather do more than just babysit.

    In addition, additional salt is poured on their wounds when they find it almost impossible trying to be a positive role model, when WHITE OWNED businesses won’t hire them!

    But I must add that Black men need to stop falling into the pits created by society, whereby they engage in crime, giving white society additional ammunition NOT to hire them, despite the fact that they hire many of their WHITE FELON’S!

    The Black culture better keep in the back of minds that these Laws was made for us, and held against us, much more than they are among any other race.

    On top of all the challenges most blacks face, black women need to STOP having children they can’t afford. They need to go out and get themselves together financially before they have babies; only to have the System come down on the black men who are as just incompetent as the woman having these babies.

    Times have changed drasically within the black community, because where I come from, my mother was very young when she had 14 of us. Not ONE of my seven (7) brothers avoided their responsibilites. They found jobs and did the best they could, until they could do better. Kids today, want INSTANCE SUCCESS and don’t want to put in the time that it takes to earn better incomes. And I believe its the fault of us Parent’s, giving children TOO MUCH, TOO SOON, despite the fact that many can’t afford it, nor teaching their children that most things, if not all things, are EARNED.

    Perhaps there are many parents out here that came up the hard way, and did not want our children suffering and struggling as we did, not REALIZING this is where STRENGTH, SACRIFICE, ENDORENCE & Plenty of COMMON SENSE comes from; its a human trait that’s very much needed when life is challenging, and for many of us black folks, challenges remain a constant part of our lives.

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