Now this is a HOT mess!!

Apparently there are people in the black community that believe that Jay-Z's song about his daughter (I can't with the name), "Glory", will inspire young absentee fathers to do a better job at parenting because they will look to Jay-Z as a role model.  Bless their hearts.  The idea that swarms of deadbeat fathers all over the land or even five of them will suddenly "see the light" and decide they're going to be good fathers because Jay-Z made a song about his daughter is pretty desperate.  His job is to make songs.  Helloooo? I'm pretty sure single parent homes have increased since Stevie Wonder released "Isn't She Lovely".  Pretty sure that fact can't be attributed to him.  At least not by anyone with more than one functioning brain cell.

Newsflash:  Jay-Z already has a 9 year old son with Shenelle Scott, a video model from Trinidad, and to a WHOLE lot of people, this is NOT news.  We knew about it when he supposedly bought her off for a million bucks and bought her a house in the islands to keep her quiet.  Google, people.  He supposedly provides very well financially for them and while I have not heard anything about whether or not father and son have a relationship, I have seen the readily-available-on-the-internet pictures of the boy and you can see the resemblance.  Fortunately, the boy is still cute as can be, his mother to thank for it. 

Now, according to Beyonce', she's been riding her camel with her husband for ten years.  This is what she said in the same Australian interview where her "stomach" folded over when she sat down.  Do the math, but not even my point.  Here's my question to those who think he's Cliff Huxtable 2.0:  Does a good father acknowledge one child and hide the presence of another for the sake of his image?  Is this what people want to see more of?   I would hope not, I think we have quite enough of this as it is, that's how people end up having three eyed babies with their siblings years down the line - trying to hide kids away.  That's how the community got so fractured to begin with and this is why we're so messed up with our mindset on this.  We started letting fathers just walk away from their families and deny the fact that they even existed.  Then they'd go off to another city or state and make another family to dump somewhere else.  Guess that's how they want their families to look.  I'll pass.  I'd prefer to see our community do BETTER in this area.  Idolizing someone who has demonstratively missed the mark would only make the problem worse. 

What say you?