Travis Henry is a running back for the Denver Broncos, and he’s making news because he just signed a $25 million dollar contract, but isn’t making enough money to feed his kids. To be more accurate, he can’t afford to pay his babies’ momas. He has 9 kids with 9 different mothers, and he’s only 28 years-old. It’s true the statistics show a very high percentage of black fathers are not around for their kids, but black men also score the most, so high fives all around. This guy really thinks with his dick head.

Here are the facts showing black men make up the majority of absent fathers:

The statistics also show that this burden falls more heavily on black children. Some 56 percent of black children lived in single-parent families in 2004, with most of those families headed by mothers. That figure compared with 22 percent of white children, and 31 percent of Hispanic children.

Fun fact:

The idea of Father’s Day was conceived by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Washington, while she listened to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm. A day in June was chosen for the first Father’s Day celebration – June 19, 1910, proclaimed by Spokane’s mayor because it was the month of Smart’s birth. The first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Father’s Day has been celebrated annually since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent.

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