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!”