Black Fathers Matter


Racism is real, and so is injustice.



So yes, black lives matter.

Racism must be denounced.

Racial reconciliation must remain within the vanguard of the church's engagement with society.


The absence of fathers.

When Kweisi Mfume, former president of the NAACP, was asked what posed the bigger threat to the black community - the presence of white racism or the absence of black fathers - he didn't hesitate to answer, "The absence of black fathers."

In a five-minute video titled "Black Fathers Matter," now watched more than 1.5 million times, Larry Elder expands on this sentiment in a compelling way. You may disagree with his proposed causes of the breakdown in fathering (he puts much blame on the "welfare state"), but the effects of the absence of fathers are without doubt.



James Emery White


"Black Lives Matter protest changed to a cookout with police," The Charlotte Observer, July 18, 2016, read online.

Daniel Victor, "Why 'All Lives Matter' Is Such a Perilous Phrase," The New York Times, July 15, 2016, read online.

Larry Elder, "Black Fathers Matter," PragerU, June 13, 2016, watch the video.

Theon E. Hill, "The Church at Its Racial Turning Point," Christianity Today, July 12, 2016, read online.