Rachel Miller-Bradshaw: Obama’s ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Program Has To Focus On Family Values | Kulture Kritic

Rachel Miller-Bradshaw: Obama’s ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ Program Has To Focus On Family Values | Kulture Kritic


In the documentary ON MY OWN, a young man, who is a member of the Ocean Baptist Church Youth Fellowship talked emotionally about his deep thought of what his life could have been if his father was around.  This displays that the My Brother’s Keeper program must continue to promote fatherhood aggressively.  Young men of color’s future depends on it. This program should focus as much on family values as it will on education and jobs.  The program should also focus on educating young men of color on the history of the Black Family in the United States.  It will give them a better understanding of how many of their forefathers were negatively socialized in regards to their position in the nuclear family in the western world.  Maybe they’ll understand and abandon some of the anger they feel everyday wondering why in their community having a father is a rare experience.