Apparently, it took some time for me to warm up to the idea of being a daddy’s girl, but Dad hung in there. I’m told ice cream on demand helped.
To all the dads who hang in there, keep up the good work. It pays off. Long after you’re gone, it pays off.
Happy Father’s Day.
Let’s not mince words about the suspect in the massacre at Emanuel AME Church. He is a terrorist of the worst kind - the domestic variety that this nation knows so well.
Nine people were gunned down Wednesday night at a Bible study inside the historic church in Charleston, S.C. The attack ignites again the uniquely American debates about guns, violence and racism.
But this attack at this church in this day and age does so much more than that. At least it should. (Full disclosure: The African Methodist Episcopal Church is dear to my family. My grandfather was a presiding elder in the AME Ohio conference. All three of his sons, including my father, were ordained ministers. At least one cousin in my generation carries on the Dokes tradition.)