It's something like an epidemic. Every day I see young mothers walking with their baby strollers, holding another child's hand, alone. Where is the baby's father? I bet you the mother is wondering the same exact thing.

But this blog isn't about young Black men abandoning the mothers of their children. I could definitely rant about the lack of fathers in the Black communities raising children from relationships gone wrong. It seems the epidemic becomes worse when the man goes on to have more children with another women. It's like the children from the first relationship are a burden, or don't exist at all.*

My bone to pick is with the Black creatures that try to weasel their way out of taking care of children that they brought into the world. Skip their child support payments. Go MIA when it's time to take their children for the weekend (which I may add is just 2 days while the mother cares for this child for the rest of the week). But yet, they'll be the first one taking the credit at award ceremonies, sports games, and graduations.

It is not in my nature to tear down any Black man. The world does that enough as it is. But I am going to call you out. It's a shame that you're okay with your children feeling unwanted and unloved. It's a disgrace that you're okay with making your God given creation feel like their a burden to you, especially if you have a new family apart from them. Think about having to deal with that as a child and living with that as you grow into an adult. How many Black children all around the world can say that they felt like their fathers didn't want them? To many. Way too many.

So I'm not offering a solution to this problem right now, because the solution is so damn obvious! It seems as though these men have all the manhood in the world when they're making these babies, but suddenly lose their balls when it's time to man up and raise their children, and not just financially. These men are making it seem like it's okay to make babies and let the mothers deal with all the work that goes into it.

Get it together Black men.**

*I must take the time out to give credit to those men who stand by the mother of their children, despite a break-up, support their children financially, and are a regular part of their children's lives. I LOVE strong Black men, especially when they play a part in creating another generation of positive Black male leaders.

**Black women are not off the hook with this one. There are mothers that abandon their children and dump the burden of raising children on their single fathers. You are just as guilty and give your children a skewed view of what it means to be a parent. Get your stuff together too. You're just as guilty.