RACISM CAN GO BOTH WAYS!!!!!!!!!!

A father has hit back at critics who left racist comments on a picture of him adeptly taking care of his two young daughters.

When Los Angeles, California resident Doyin Richards shared a photo of himself cradling his baby girl in an Ergo while brushing his other daughter's hair, the post went viral.

But some commenters took issue with the color of his skin, making cruel assumptions about his lifestyle.

'I would bet anything that you're a deadbeat,' one nasty commenter wrote on his blog Daddy Doin' Work, while another said: 'Cute picture. Now why don't you hand the children back to their mom so you can go back to selling drugs or your bootleg rap CDs?'

Internet controversy: When Doyin Richards shared this photo of himself cradling his baby girl in an Ergo while brushing his other daughter's hair, the post went viral, receiving both positive and negative feedback

While some of the critics made offensive remarks about his race, others commented on the fact that his children, who are three months old and three years old in the photo, don't share his exact same skin color.

'He probably rented those kids. They don't even look like him,' one commenter said about his daughters, whose mother Mariko is half-white and half-Japanese.

Another suggested that being a doting father as an African American man shows weakness, writing: 'Look at this Uncle Tom. No chance he would be doing this if his kids were black.'

 

Surprisingly, Mr Richards notes that many of the people posting racist comments were actually black men like himself, who had negative things to say about his mixed-race wife and daughters.

'I'm sorry, but I can't support a brotha who didn't marry a black woman,' wrote one such critic.

To these people, Mr Richards hit back by referring to Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

'I have a dream that people will view a picture like this and not think it's such a big deal'

'Grow up and stop being so f****** ignorant,' he wrote. ‘You're a damn embarrassment to Dr King and his legacy.'

The father-of-two added: 'If the first thing you want to do is to criticize the skin color of my kids for not being as dark as mine, you have some serious issues.'

In the beginning of his post, which was shared in October, Mr Richards explains that he took the month off from work for 'baby bonding' with his daughter, who was then three months old.

He snapped the picture one particular morning to prove to his wife that he could get both daughters ready for school - including styling the older girl's hair - without her help.

SOURCE-DAILYM