Hotep Heroes -- The Joseph Walter Jackson Memorial Black Father of the Year Award
(wait… Joe Jackson isn’t dead yet? Well damn, is he like a little bit sick or something? Oh well, carrying on!) I think you see where I am going with this one. Previous winners would include the likes of Earl Woods and Richard Williams. While the days of whooping your kids asses in order for you to live off of their success are gone, there still exists a world where you can push them to continue to do something they may or may not actually want to do to the point of extreme success, for which you will yourself be rewarded with a share of. F’rinstance, no one exactly knows whether or not a young Eldrick Woods actually wanted to play golf, but his father – an old-school Black man raised through Jim Crow – pushed his son to be good at what was and still kind of is a white man’s game. It worked to the point where he was the best to do it for a very long time. On that same token, no one exactly knows whether Venus and Serena Williams themselves wanted