Please take a moment to check out a commentary piece I did for Essence.com in regards to President Obama’s first 100 days and what it means to the black family.
While you’re there you can also see another excerpt from the upcoming documentary that we are still shooting called: Happily Ever After. The doc will focus marriage and parenting in the black community and the featured excerpt on Essence is in regards to the affect the Obama’s will have on marriage in the black community.
Click here for video (It’s also currently on every page including the home page on the right sidebar under EssenceTV)
After you’ve taken a look come back and let us know A) what you think of the video clip and B) what affect you think they will have?
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That piece was excellent! I cannot wait for the documentary to come out! I think that the effect that the Obama’s marriage will be that our people will no longer have excuses for why that aren’t married or why their marriages don’t work.
People will no longer be able to say “I don’t know how a marriage works because I grew up in a single parent home” yadda, yadda, yadda. Obama grew up with a single parent and has seemed to excel in this area. Hopefully, this will enable our people to see that the reason that they aren’t succeeding in this area isn’t because of the institution of marriage, but because of the issues (lack of commitment, etc) that individuals deal with everyday.
Strong black families and strong black marriages have been around for a long time, look at our grandparents who are in their 70′s and older, look how they are still in love with each other. Go Lamar and Ronnie and President Obama and 1st lady Michelle for bringing it out to the front lines. The media believes in negativity and all we see is “are you the father” shows where you can get a free hotel and plane ride to embarass not only yourself but Black America…..We must support and demand the positive side of Black America. Yes the Black family is still strong. Husbands do love their wives and Wives do love their husbands…..wear the t-shirt proudly and and the number of years to it also so everyone can see that Black Marriages are alive and doing great!.
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