Amer­i­ca has be­come a na­tion where fa­ther­hood is fast be­com­ing un­nec­es­sary and ir­rel­e­vant in many homes and com­mu­ni­ties to­day. Sin­gle moth­er­hood and di­vorced women are not on­ly more cel­e­brat­ed in the me­dia than mar­ried women, but fa­thers and hus­bands are dis­re­gard­ed even when they are present in the hos­pi­tal when their child is be­ing born or for the child's health­care.

Joe Jack­son, fa­ther of Michael Jack­son, is one man that did what was right for his fam­i­ly and chil­dren re­gard­less of how the me­dia try to por­tray him as a bad fa­ther.�Maybe he dis­ci­plined Michael more than the rest be­cause of Michael's per­son­al­i­ty, but you see how Michael turned out com­pared to the rest of his sib­lings. Michael may have died first, but he im­pact­ed the world more than kings, pres­i­dents, and popes. �

While oth­er blacks in Michael Jack­son's time died young, were in­car­cer­at­ed, or were a nui­sance to so­ci­ety due to the sys­tem, Joe Jack­son as a man and fa­ther took his chil­dren and made them a house­hold name that gave the world so much.�I would like to en­cour­age all fa­thers to dis­re­gard what many women and the me­dia may think of fa­ther­hood and go ahead to be a bless­ing in the lives of their chil­dren or any child.

Ehi Aim­i­uwu

At­lanta, Geor­gia