Saving Our Sons — Celebrity Moms Share Parenting Tips on Single Parenthood
One Hundred Black Men, Inc.
Eagle Academy for Young Men
and the
Eagle Academy Foundation
Present
Saving Our Sons
Hundreds of parents, grandparents, educators, mentors and concerned citizens will be on hand to learn strategies for helping Black and Latino young men achieve academic, professional, and social success at Saving Our Sons, a four-hour workshop/panel discussion seeking solutions on the educational crisis facing young men of color.
Saving Our Sons opens with “Raising Him Alone,” a panel discussion featuring prominent women who have successfully raised their internationally known celebrity sons alone.
Moderated by Meshelle, The Indie-Mom of Comedy (as seen on Nickelodeon’s Search for The Funniest Mom in America), participants on the panel are:
Dr. Mahalia A. Hines, mother of
rapper and actor Common,
Dr. Brenda Greene, mother of
rapper and activist Talib Kweli
Sheron Smith, mother of
Grammy nominated rapper and actor Mos Def
Saving Our Sons immediately follows the two-day Eagle Academy Foundation’s Professional Development Institute during which educators from around the country convene to discuss tools and strategies for educating young men.
In addition to the panel discussion, there will also be workshops on Fatherhood, Anger Management and Encounters with Law Enforcement. The event will end with a community celebration with music, refreshments, and giveaways.
Date: Saturday, July 11th
Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Place: Eagle Academy for Young Men, Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice, 244 East 163 Street, between Grant and Sherman Avenues, near Yankee Stadium Bronx, New York
More Info: Call (212) 777-7070
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Its official, popular Black culture has lost its mind. I think its much better to promote the two parent household. More often than not, you see the single parent with the out of control child. Just because Murphy Brown and some well heeled professional Black women met with success it does not mean that 17 year old “Shante” in the projects with a baby will meet with the same success.
It takes a two parent household NOT a village. When are we going to wake up are realize that many of the ills that ravage and plague our communities stem from broken family structures? Duh?! At the very least, folks need to admit to the dire condition of parenting skills within our community. From that, a strategy can be built. For example, disseminating information on reasons and rationales for disciplining children. Believe it or not, the lack of these reasons and rationales is at the heart of the almost absent disciplinary culture that plagues the “non-nuclear” family models that seem to characterize family structures in the Black community (yeah I said that, and its so true). How many times have you seen the young black child or infant getting into everything, running amok, and loud while the parent (usually a woman because the biological father is off doing some more foolishness) appears oblivious to the havok the child is wreaking. This mindless and oblivious parenting (I like to call them “obliviots”) are, essentially, “thug and hoochie factories”. For these kinds of parents, who seem to be more than just a substantial minority (no pun intended), training the child to sit still, be disciplined, and respect the peace and mores of the surrounding people and the community they create is of little concern. Why? Because they, the parent (s), don’t know anybetter. Looking on the “bright side of single parenting” is yet another example of how rampant irresponsibility continues to plague and ultimately destroy the Black community.
Like my man Dap in “School Daze” said: “Wake up!”
Black women raising their sons alone? So what’s the message to these sons. It’s ok to get a woman pregnant and move on, cause she can raise the kids on her own just like mama did. And mama had no problems with that, so what’s the big deal? Fatherhood and the wicked ‘patriarchy’ is dead. No such thing as a father no more. Only mothers are important. Men are just men in a woman’s world – the feminist matriarchy. You didn’t know?