Challenging stereotypes about Black fathers

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do agree there's a

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misconception about black parenting of

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black fathers in America that a lot of

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individuals believe that we aren't

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involved in our children's lives but

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that can be further from the truth

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media influence plays a very big role in

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how the world perceives us we change the

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way that people see us as black fathers

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by doing this with the curl Ready Steady

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Go

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okay think I'm playing with you yeah

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[Music]

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my mission was to challenge that

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negative stereotype of one image at a

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time so I began to record videos of me

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and my kids and the things that we do

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every day then I started to upload them

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soon other dad started to notice and

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they began to send their videos too from

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there the dad gang started become

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popular then we decided to take it one

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step further and started doing events

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around the country suddenly we had a

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movement we had a ton of events lined up

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for 2020 a