JQPublic1
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You sound like aSad that so many on the right defend this sort of racism and hate.Sad that bigots still fall for crap like this.
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Get some new material if you can...
He doesn't have to , I've got his back. When you talk of broken Black families as if most Blacks are born, live and die that way, you have obviously been misled. Consider the following graphic:

If 72% of Black babies are born out of wedlock, obviously many of those are born to people who are NOT poor. That is significant since about 75% of Blacks aren't impoverished and are not likely to be street thugs.. Evidently those middle classed Blacks are having kids before they are married but that doesn't mean they don't get hitched later. But even if they don't a study has shown that Black fathers support their children and pay their court ordered child support. Not only that, they are more prone to do so than any other demographic.
Mass incarceration has disproportionately ensnared young black men, sucking hundreds of thousands of marriage-age men out of the community.
Another thing to consider is something that The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates pointed out in 2013: “The drop in the birthrate for unmarried black women is mirrored by an even steeper drop among married black women. Indeed, whereas at one point married black women were having more kids than married white women, they are now having less.” This means that births to unmarried black women are disproportionately represented in the statistics.
Now to the mythology of the black male dereliction as dads: While it is true that black parents are less likely to marry before a child is born, it is not true that black fathers suffer a pathology of neglect. In fact, a C.D.C. report issued in December 2013 found that black fathers were the most involved with their children daily, on a number of measures, of any other group of fathers — and in many cases, that was among fathers who didn’t live with their children, as well as those who did.
There is no doubt that the 72 percent statistic is real and may even be worrisome, but it represents more than choice. It exists in a social context, one at odds with the corrosive mythology about black fathers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/o...lack-dads-are-doing-the-best-of-all.html?_r=0