This week, we're talking about black fatherhood. Mostly, we're having a conversation that was partially inspired by a comment we all probably heard after the murder of George Floyd and again with Rayshard Brooks: "He was a loving father". Even though both men very well may have been and both were simply trying to survive, the system still killed them both.

Fast forward to today: Father's Day. We noticed that in death or on a holiday like today, it seems much easier to give black men credit for their contributions to the family unit and/or black community, but on a day-to-day basis it doesn't happen as readily (us included). So, we decided to have a conversation exploring why it seems so rare for people to recognize or have sympathy for black men in general and black fathers in particular? Why do we all "know" that 70% of black fathers aren't in the home, but we never try as hard to "know" why? How does media portrayal of black men help or hurt the narrative? Would the fake love we're getting from media and corporations serve the community better if everyone (including them) was committed to repairing the black family unit? (I'll just go ahead and answer this one now: Hell Yeah!). We talked about all of this and also what we plan to do about changing that narrative in our personal lives going forward.