Monday, June 16, 2008

The Black Family's Problems

The Black Family's Problems

I'm sure that liberals everywhere will dismiss this guy's concerns, once again, about the broken state of the black family. This troublemaker--obviously some sort of conservative, probably closeted racist--pointed out:


CHICAGO (AP) - Barack Obama celebrated Father's Day by calling on black fathers, who he said are "missing from too many lives and too many homes," to become active in raising their children.
"They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it," the Democratic presidential candidate said Sunday at a largely black church in his hometown.
Reminding the congregation of his firsthand experience growing up without a father, Obama said he was lucky to have loving grandparents who helped his mother. He got support, second chances and scholarships that helped him get an education. Obama's father left when he was 2.
"A lot of children don't get those chances. There is no margin for error in their lives," said Obama, an Illinois senator.
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We can't simply write these problems off to past injustices," Obama said Sunday. "Those injustices are real. There's a reason our families are in disrepair ... but we can't keep using that as an excuse."
Obama urged black parents to demand the best from themselves and their children.
I agree with Obama that past injustices certainly played some part in creating some very destructive family patterns for the black family. But the more distant those past injustices get, the less and less excuse there is for black men to leave a trail of pregnant girls (often not even women).

When I was in Washington, D.C. a couple of years ago, I heard one of the local progressive talk radio stations going on and on about how monogamy was invented by white people to oppress black men. All I could think was that one of the nastiest racist stereotypes--black men as uncontrolled sexuality--was now being openly promoted by blacks who fancy themselves as progressives.

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