The Black Fatherhood Project

One writer said he was "miffed" when he decided to put together a Father's Day video from youtube clippings and couldn't find many involving Black fathers.

Like you and I, when he went on what should have been a simple search for videos featuring African American men interacting with or speaking out about their children, the pickings were slim.

The few I found when I went searching were few and far between and in virtually all of the comments, I read the same things:

"It's rare to see such a posting"

"Why are there more videos like this?"

"Why are there so few views [hits] for videos about black fathers? If this were a hoochie video or some BET video featuring a thugged out rapper, there would be over 1 million views. Sad," wrote one commenter.

Sad, but it's true.

There are more videos and posts about how messed up, unavailable, trifling and good-for-nothing black men are, fostering that "blame-it-on-the-Black-man" mentality that has relationships between Black men and women in such a state of disrepair.

Below is an excerpt from Aaron Taylor's article titled, "Good Black Fathers? They DO Exist (Just Not in the Media)"

The interview below was conducted in 2007. Chris is a loving father of two and at the time of the interview, a Ph.D candidate at Howard University.

The Black Fatherhood Project is an independent project taken on by Jordan Thierry, student and activist originating from the Portland, Oregon area. The Black Fatherhood Project is a critical exploration of the roles black men play as father figures in American families.

It is also a tribute to, and acknowledgement of the millions of Black men who are active contributors in the upbringing of their own and others' children, a group that is severely neglected and often blamed for many of the problems in the black community.

Ultimately, the BFP hopes to expose these men who are serving a significant function in society in order to set an example and inspire other men, black men specifically who are not fulfilling this responsibility, as well as better the world's understanding of the black family.