Here is recipe I prepared in rememberance of of men and women who have sustained the struggle for justice as solid parents. I understand that men play a different role than that of women in parenting but the idea of celebrating fathers separately is just one out of way ways. Simply because we have done things one way for so long doesn't preclude the consideration of other ideas..
Many of us are complacent in sustaining a system that favors us mostly out of luck and not due to hard work. The notion that we are where we are simply because our our hard work has been proven to be a fallacy. There is also the severe danger of cultural genocide that disadvantages the poor with illusions and asymmetry in information that would otherwise empower their rise to power. In the end, the wealth gap continues to increase. That gap means more dead broke parents who have to rely on debt. There is little to celebrate when broke and hungry. It's easy to ignore the problem when one doesn't have to worry about food. It took me a long time to make the connections between food, knowledge and power. Dr. Edward Said in his theory of Orientalism makes a formidable case that those in power have weaponized knowledge as a means of increasing their hegemony.
These notions lingered in my mind today as I spent the day teaching my children history and culture while we cooked together in the kitchen. The recipe we made is named Philo G after my first and best philosophy teacher, Dr. Ruben Green. Dr. Green taught me many things but most importantly the philosophical basis for being socially and racially responsible for the privilege of being educated and informed. A big salute to my father, Kabui Macharia, Dr. Green and the many other stand-up men that I have had the privilege of learning from. The salute is obviously extended to the women and children that made those men great fathers to many inside and outside their families. One can make a case that knowledge is a sort of father. Your knowledge guides your life while food plays the role of mother for it's nurturing power. Those two factors combine to heavily determines the type of culture we ultimately have as a society, country and even as a species. Be weary of any deadbeat institutions, whether political, governmental or religious that debases knowldge and food for it can only lead us to darkness and ultimately lead to our demise.