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PRAGMATIC, that's awesome. I like dat. It goes a long way towards personal responsibility. Nobody I kno who falls down on they responsibility, tho, cries racism. It is we who seek to excuse one another for our errors, for prison, for poverty, for absentee adulthood, absentee parenthood, absentee African identity, like Barack Obama.
I have to say, as well, that taking care of your family is not all there is to being responsible. For some of us, carrying the black liberation struggle upon our shoulders is no added burden but part of the responsibility of being black. It is part of who we are and we are incomplete whereas some look at the black liberation struggle as anathema. I have known those whose parents bought them off to stay out of Uhuru or some other group. I dare say selling out is part of colonized culture.
Now while somebody may go to work on crutches and canes and never miss a day, it would be better if that somebody were fighting for black liberation on crutches and canes and never missed a day.
What's more, our children may not be what we need them to be and we may not always be there for them. Like Clinton, Obama didn't have his daddy around (neither did I) and he is gunning for America's top spot. Boy toint out aw-aight. That means Obama is exceptional or that Africans under the most extraordinary circumstances come out extraordinary. So I don't worry about the single-parent myth excessively. What I do worry about is black people taking control of our collective destiny and attaining real political power. Not just quarterbacking Imperialism. Fuck that.

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