There is always talk in the black community about absentee fathers, it’s a stereotype to some degree that has elements of truth with some fathers in and out of jail or fathering multiple children with multiple women and not taking fatherhood seriously.

Don’t get me wrong, plenty of non-black dads are up to this behavior too and there are so many amazing black dads but the absentee father issue is one that the black community can work together on to solve.

And as always, it starts with the youth.

This video is heartbreaking in so many ways. A young man sits down with his father, a man he hardly knew yet a man who fathered all of his siblings.

A man who was in and out of jail, who saw the world in a light that it seems this young man can’t fathom, although he has always known about his fathers gangbanging from rumors.

Just watch this. The courage of the young man is amazing, in light of growing up without a dad he seems like he has become a real man: