BOOK OVERVIEW
OVERVIEW The Saving Our Daughters: From a Man’s Point of View book series returns with Volume 2, now focusing on issues concerning inner-race issues revolving around skin color affecting our families and communities.
Does the color of someone's skin dictate your decisions when selecting relationships? What messages are we relaying to our daughters when people feel that one shade of skin color is better than another?
This time around, actors from Tyler Perry Films and the critically acclaimed series THE WIRE come together to speak about these topics; and they continue the discussion of being positive fathers and men. Interviews and participants inside include Roger Bobb (Supervising Producer - Tyler Perry's House of Payne | Tyler Perry Studios), Rockmond Dunbar (Soul Food, Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys), Boris Kodjoe (Soul Food, Tyler Perry's Madea’s Family Reunion, the upcoming Sci-Fi Film Surrogates w/Bruce Willis) Wood Harris (THE WIRE, Remember The Titans), Idris Elba (Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls, THE WIRE, Obsessed), Gary Owen (Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Stand-Up Comedian), Roger Mitchell (Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Daddy's Little Girls) and Chad Coleman (THE WIRE, the Upcoming FOX TV Series Boldly Going Nowhere).
The book continues providing letters from fathers sharing their joy, pain and reflections on how these issues of color and others are affecting them as they raise their daughters. We invite you to read, enjoy, reflect and share this book with those you love.
SAVING OUR DAUGHTERS: FROM A MAN’S POINT OF VIEW Vol. 2
OPENING MONOLOGUE
TO THE READER,
Where do we begin with this delicate subject of color and inter-racism; or what I like to call interracial profiling and how it affects us on deciding on relationships as well on how we choose our partners?
You may say that our second book has nothing to do with properly raising daughters and learning how to be positive fathers and men in our communities; but I beg to differ.
We must first stop judging each other based on the color of our skin. We must also stop making comments like “I want to date outside of my race to have cute babies.” Kids are thinking that someone with a lighter skin tone than their own makes them else cuter and prettier. It doesn't help the situation when people make comments like "Oh he or she looks good to be dark skinned.” WHAT DOES THAT MEAN PEOPLE?
When we call someone “Pretty Boy” in reference to an individual being light-skinned, why don’t we ever say it about a person with a darker complexion? These were topics last explored in the powerful and controversial Spike Lee Films School Daze and Jungle Fever in the late 80’s early 90’s. Now we have decided to bring it back into our community’s focus!!
As you can read in my opening comments for this book, I have personally dealt with these issues on this sensitive topic based on shades of color and senseless stereotype jokes in the past concerning my skin color that have scarred me. I hope that reading the men’s interviews in this book will help me understand and continue to heal as well.
Sincerely,
Curtis Benjamin Publisher/Author