EP 51: We see you, dads

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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We hear from dads, people talking about their daddies, and we hear about the joys, and challenges, of Black fatherhood. We see you, Black dads. Featuring dads Chris Stewart, Rob Fields, and Sam Adewumi.

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0:00.0	I got to say this time of year, you know, during Father's Day, it's a bit of an emotional
0:15.6	time for me.
0:16.6	Yeah, I can imagine.
0:18.6	It really gets me thinking about my dad a lot and missing him.
0:23.2	Yeah.
0:24.2	And then sometimes I wonder, you know, was I too hard on him as a dad?
0:29.5	You know, I always wanted that Hollywood dad, the one you see on TV, the one that sat
0:33.8	down for chats about boy troubles and the one who made dinner and sang in the kitchen
0:39.2	with mom, dancing, dance low, dancing, and you know, would cry when you went away to
0:47.2	college.
0:48.2	You know I'm talking about the TV dad?
0:50.2	Yeah, everybody wanted that dad, but that was a fake dad on TV.
0:54.9	It was.
0:56.5	I just felt like I'm looking back and I'm like, was I too hard on him too many expectations?
1:04.1	You know, poor dad, he was just, you know, always critiqued and yeah, so it just got me
1:11.1	thinking about how much pressure we put on dads and what that must feel like.
1:17.5	And black dads are under a lot of pressure anyway, so today what do we hear from some
1:24.6	and just celebrate black fatherhood?
1:27.1	Yeah, let's just stupid out.
1:42.3	This is my voice.
1:43.8	It can tell you a lot about me and I'm not changing it for anyone.
1:49.0	In MPR's black stories, black truths, you'll find a collection of MPR episodes centered
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