Betrayed by their Elders — And Their Party
A week ago, in the midst of this, the summer of the flash mob — groups of mostly black teens who have attacked non-blacks at random in public places — Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter angrily lectured his city’s young black thugs:
If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you? They don’t hire you “cause you look like you’re crazy,” the mayor said. “You have damaged your own race.”
Of course, Nutter’s admonishment was necessary and overdue. But let’s face it. While in no way exonerating the criminals involved in this summer’s mayhem, you have to be blind in one eye and not be able to see out of the other not to recognize and admit that policies which black civil rights “leaders,” most big-city mayors of all races, and liberals in general have favored for decades have contributed mightily to today’s devolved black youth culture. In a supreme and bitter irony, America’s first African-American president (well, not really, but work with me here) and his party in Washington have sharply accelerated the damage during the past three years.
In difficult economic times, entry-level, less-skilled, and less-senior workers suffer the most. Sadly, blacks are overrepresented in these groups. Getting these workers into or back to productively contributing to society is why turning around an economy as quickly as possible after a serious downturn is so critical. It has been over three years since the beginning of the recession as normal people define it, roughly coinciding with the inception of the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) economy, also known as the fear-based economy. It’s been over two years since the recession officially ended. The degree of turnaround needed to employ these workers is not happening. Indeed, the situation is getting worse.
The latest available census information, bumped up by a bit, tells us that there are about 2.8 million African-Americans in the 16-19 age group. As of July, according to not seasonally adjusted data at the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
• 433,000, or 15%, had jobs. By contrast, in July 2006, over 700,000 African-American teens were working. In July 1998, among a smaller population, over 900,000 were.
• 306,000, or 11%, were unemployed.
• 740,000, or 26%, were working or looking for work. In July 2006, that number was over 1.1 million. In July 1998, it was over 1.3 million.
• The remaining 2.06 million, an astonishing 74%, during the peak month of teen summer employment, were not in the workforce.
The equivalent July 2011 percentages for whites, over which there is no cause to jump for joy, were 35% employed, 11% unemployed, and 54% not in the workforce. While there is a clearly a teen workplace disengagement epidemic among whites, in the black community it’s a full-blown plague.
I thought the Liberals had a plan to deal with “too many people” in such a bad situation. Why don’t they just ramp up their beloved Margaret Sanger’s “Negro Project”?
I mean, after all, trying to “fix the actual problem” is just crazy evangelical code-speak for “take away a woman’s right to choose.”
The left tells us endlessly that it’s inhumane to bring children into a such a situation as this, so clearly we’re not having enough abortions.
“Why don’t they just ramp up their beloved Margaret Sanger’s “Negro Project”?”
Because if they are never born they can never vote. But if they have ever existed they can vote even if they’re in jail or dead. That’s the Liberal Democrat method and it works pretty well most of the time.
Uh…excuse me…ever heard of keeping one’s pants on until actually prepared to accept the usual result of sexual activity? Ever heard of birth control? Adoption? Oh, I don’t know…marriage?
America’s youth can count on antibiotics controlling the dozens of STD’s waiting to be shared, so why not rut like a barnyard animal? PARTY ON!!!!
Maybe you like it when a river floods it’s banks to the ruin of an entire city…the consequences in both instances are pretty much the same, aren’t they?
Oh, right…you’re one of the enlightened ones we’ve been waiting for; not a ‘crazy evangelical’ who ‘code spoke’ to a nation to give you, a fool, the chance to be born.
Um… Maybe you should read what I wrote again.
I said “the LEFT tells us.” I didn’t say I believe that.
Thanks, and sorry for the oversight.
I buried my mother on Monday, and am not ‘back’ yet…
God be with you, my friend.
It’s all just more evidence that liberals are mentally ill. They cannot figure out cause and effect. Logic and facts do not sway them from their ideas.
It all started when the Democrat Party enslaved blacks. And now 90 percent of blacks say “I want to vote for the political party who beat, killed, and lynched slaves”. Yeah! Freedom. Give me some pork. And the media has convinced blacks that Republicans are racist even though they freed the slaves and want everyone to succeed.
Why do you assume that blacks are being badly served by anybody? Two inherited characteristics are notable among blacks everywhere and at all times: intelligence ‘different’ from white people’s, and lack of impulse control. Refusing to admit that different demes of Homo sapiens are at least as different as different breeds of Canis lupus familiaris leads to false conclusions about human behavior. We constantly are ragged about Americans’ violence and criminality. Actually, crime rates among American whites is the same as for Europeans (need I add: European whites?). It’s American blacks who commit crimes at awesome rates. No, to get it absolutely correct, it’s blacks all over the world at every point in history. It’s that darned lack of impulse-control again. This is nothing to blame blacks for, it’s hard-wired behavior. You might be able to teach your dog not to chase squirrels, but not one pup in a litter will ever do the same — it’s not natural for dogs. In spite of their constant crapola about Mother Nature, Gaia, The Environment, and the Cosmic Muffin, Leftists do not believe in Nature, or Human Nature. They have always been good little Lysenkoists, as their lust for totalitarian control is only justifiable by environmentalism. This, against the evidence of current brain-science, careful observation of behaviors, and all of recorded history. Denial might be a river in Egypt, but Leftist denial is bigger than 10 Amazons.
“Two inherited characteristics are notable among blacks everywhere and at all times: intelligence different from white people’s and lack of impulse control”.
Do genetic factors alone explain differences in intelligence? Or do environmental
factors matter too? Are intelligence tests useful in everyday life or should not the ability to be able to study or to do a specific job matter more. Success in life is not only dependent on intelligence. Are “criminality and violence” the result of “lack of impulse control” or the result of environmental factors? Some days ago I watched a report about a very neglected and criminal district in the north of Liverpool. All bad boys have been white.
Jackobite- woah! Not true. “lack of impulse control” -has everything to do with learning. Listen- blacks are receiving corrupted messages about why they are punished and are not taught to follow civil behavior codes. They learn these errors from other blacks, and whites, too.
Don’t even try -this intelligence arguement, either. Even if a black can barely read -this is no excuse for bad behavior.
I cannot believe so many posting here are so misguided.People, I am white. I have been around all “races”. You people!!Get real.
How many of these black teens also come from single-parent homes? It all starts at home, too, with two parents bringing discipline into the child’s life. The discipline to dress properly, talk properly (not like some rapper thug), stay in school and get a diploma, and act like a good member of society, not like some animal willing to kill you over a pair of shoes. Perhaps that’s why so many black young people thrive so well in the military. The military gives them the discipline that was lacking in their lives and re-educates them by giving them the values most often lost at home. It is a pity that Obama has not increased the size of the military to give more young minorities a chance to join and, not only increase their education, but also get paid for it as well. That sure is better than hiring them for a few “green” jobs that won’t even be there tomorrow (given how poorly “green” companies have done lately).
Sure, the economy is bad. It’s bad for everyone. But a young person who either comes from a stable two-parent home or has had military training has a much better chance at getting a job than a kid who just wastes his life on the streets of a major city, getting into trouble. Perhaps we should be pushing those ideas as well.
In the full sermon (which is on YouTube and which is priceless), Nutter does discuss family cohesion and sexual responsibility.
Mr. Blumer is certainly right to point out the irony that this message comes from a hardline liberal.
But I want to point out another lesson here: the failure yet again of The Stupid Party to attract yet another natural constituency. Whether Nutter knows it or not, he is actually a Republican. Same for the Black folk at that sermon who jumped up and cheered everything he said.
I don’t know who’s stupider — the Black folk who side with their slavemasters, or the Republicans who can’t make freedom look good.
My siblings and I were raised by a single mother and none of us ever committed a crime, nor did we turn to drugs, alcohol or started having babies at age 16. From day one I was raised to accept the consequences of my actions….with no excuses. Father or no father, they have willingly chosen to rob, loot, riot and beat innocent bystanders.
Oh my, yes!
Your family is so wonderfully special that we should just ignore all the other ones where things don’t turn out quite so fantastically magnificent. . .
. . .or, wait, maybe not:
The Father Factor
Data on the Consequences of Father Absence
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 24 million children in America — one out of three — live in biological father-absent homes.
Consequently, there is a “father factor” in nearly all of the social issues facing America today.
Scroll down to view data on the effects of father absence on: poverty, maternal and child health, incarceration, crime, teen pregnancy, child abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, education, and childhood obesity.
Father Factor in Poverty
* Children in father-absent homes are five times more likely to be poor. In 2002, 7.8 percent of children in married-couple families were living in poverty, compared to 38.4 percent of children in female-householder families.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Children’s Living Arrangements and Characteristics: March 2002, P200-547, Table C8. Washington D.C.: GPO, 2003.
* During the year before their babies were born, 43% of unmarried mothers received welfare or food stamps, 21% received some type of housing subsidy, and 9% received another type of government transfer (unemployment insurance etc.). For women who have another child, the proportion who receive welfare or food stamps rises to 54%.
Source: McLanahan, Sara. The Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study: Baseline National Report. Princeton, NJ: Center for Research on Child Well-being, 2003: 13.
* A child with a nonresident father is 54 percent more likely to be poorer than his or her father.
Source: Sorenson, Elaine and Chava Zibman. “Getting to Know Poor Fathers Who Do Not Pay Child Support.” Social Service Review 75 (September 2001): 420-434.
* When compared by family structure, 45.9% of poor single-parent families reported material hardship compared to 38.6% of poor two parent families. For unpoor families who did not experience material hardship, 23.3% were single-parent families compared to 41.2% of two-parent families.
Source: Beverly, Sondra G., “Material hardship in the United States: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation.” Social Work Research 25 (September 2001): 143-151.3
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Father Factor in Maternal and Infant Health
* Infant mortality rates are 1.8 times higher for infants of unmarried mothers than for married mothers.
Source: Matthews, T.J., Sally C. Curtin, and Marian F. MacDorman. Infant Mortality Statistics from the 1998 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set. National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 48, No. 12. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 2000.
* Based on birth and death data for 217,798 children born in Georgia in 1989 and 1990, infants without a father’s name on their birth certificate (17.9 percent of the total) were 2.3 times more likely to die in the first year of life compared to infants with a father’s name on their birth certificate.
Source: Gaudino, Jr., James A., Bill Jenkins, and Foger W. Rochat. “No Fathers’ Names: A Risk Factor for Infant Mortality in the State of Georgia, USA.” Social Science and Medicine 48 (1999): 253-265.
* Unmarried mothers are less likely to obtain prenatal care and more likely to have a low birth-weight baby. Researchers find that these negative effects persist even when they take into account factors, such as parental education, that often distinguish single-parent from two-parent families.
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Public Health Service. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics. Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing. Hyattsville, MD (Sept. 1995): 12.
* Expectant fathers can play a powerful role as advocates of breastfeeding to their wives. Three-fourths of women whose partners attended a breastfeeding promotion class initiated breastfeeding.
Source: Wolfberg, Adam J., et al. “Dads as breastfeeding advocates: results from a randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 191 (September 2004): 708-712.
* Fathers’ knowledge about breastfeeding increases the likelihood that a child will be breastfed. Children who fathers knew more had a 1.76 higher chance of being breastfed at the end of the first month and 1.91 higher chance of receiving maternal milk at the end of the third month.
Source: Susin, Lurie R.O. “Does Parental Breastfeeding Knowledge Increase Breastfeeding Rates?” BIRTH 26 (September 1999): 149-155.
* Twenty-three percent of unmarried mothers in large U.S. cities reported cigarette use during their pregnancy. Seventy-one percent were on Medicare.
Source: McLanahan, Sara. The Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study: Baseline National Report. Table 7. Princeton, NJ: Center for Research on Child Well-being, 2003: 16.
* A study of 2,921 mothers revealed that single mothers were twice as likely as married mothers to experience a bout of depression in the prior year. Single mothers also reported higher levels of stress, fewer contacts with family and friends, less involvement with church or social groups and less overall social support.
Source: Cairney, John and Michael Boyle et al. “Stress, Social Support and Depression in Single and Married Mothers.” Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 38 (August 2003): 442-449.
* In a longitudinal study of more than 10,000 families, researchers found that toddlers living in stepfamilies and single-parent families were more likely to suffer a burn, have a bad fall, or be scarred from an accident compared to kids living with both of their biological parents.
Source: O’Connor, T., L. Davies, J. Dunn, J. Golding, ALSPAC Study Team. “Differential Distribution of Children’s Accidents, Injuries and Illnesses across Family Type.” Pediatrics 106 (November 2000): e68.
* A study of 3,400 middle schoolers indicated that not living with both biological parents quadruples the risk of having an affective disorder.
Source: Cuffe, Steven P., Robert E. McKeown, Cheryl L. Addy, and Carol Z. Garrison. “Family Psychosocial Risk Factors in a Longitudinal Epidemiological Study of Adolescents.” Journal of American Academic Child Adolescent Psychiatry 44 (February 2005): 121-129.
* Children who live apart from their fathers are more likely to be diagnosed with asthma and experience an asthma-related emergency even after taking into account demographic and socioeconomic conditions. Unmarried, cohabiting parents and unmarried parents living apart are 1.76 and 2.61 times, respectively, more likely to have their child diagnosed with asthma. Marital disruption after birth is associated with a 6-fold increase in the likelihood a children will require an emergency room visit and 5-fold increase of an asthma-related emergency.
Source: Harknett, Kristin. Children’s Elevated Risk of Asthma in Unmarried Families: Underlying Structural and Behavioral Mechanisms. Working Paper #2005-01-FF. Princeton, NJ: Center for Research on Child Well-being, 2005: 19-27.
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Father Factor in Incarceration
* Even after controlling for income, youths in father-absent households still had significantly higher odds of incarceration than those in mother-father families. Youths who never had a father in the household experienced the highest odds.
Source: Harper, Cynthia C. and Sara S. McLanahan. “Father Absence and Youth Incarceration.” Journal of Research on Adolescence 14 (September 2004): 369-397.
* A 2002 Department of Justice survey of 7,000 inmates revealed that 39% of jail inmates lived in mother-only households. Approximately forty-six percent of jail inmates in 2002 had a previously incarcerated family member. One-fifth experienced a father in prison or jail.
Source: James, Doris J. Profile of Jail Inmates, 2002. (NCJ 201932). Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, July 2004.
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Father Factor in Crime
* A study of 109 juvenile offenders indicated that family structure significantly predicts delinquency.
Source: Bush, Connee, Ronald L. Mullis, and Ann K. Mullis. “Differences in Empathy Between Offender and Nonoffender Youth.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence 29 (August 2000): 467-478.
* Adolescents, particularly boys, in single-parent families were at higher risk of status, property and person delinquencies. Moreover, students attending schools with a high proportion of children of single parents are also at risk.
Source: Anderson, Amy L. “Individual and contextual influences on delinquency: the role of the single-parent family.” Journal of Criminal Justice 30 (November 2002): 575-587.
* A study of 13,986 women in prison showed that more than half grew up without their father. Forty-two percent grew up in a single-mother household and sixteen percent lived with neither parent. (Fathers and Daughters)
Source: Snell, Tracy L and Danielle C. Morton. Women in Prison: Survey of Prison Inmates, 1991. Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, 1994: 4.
* Even after controlling for community context, there is significantly more drug use among children who do not live with their mother and father.
Source: Hoffmann, John P. “The Community Context of Family Structure and Adolescent Drug Use.” Journal of Marriage and Family 64 (May 2002): 314-330.
* Youths are more at risk of first substance use without a highly involved father. Each unit increase in father involvement is associated with 1% reduction in substance use. Living in an intact family also decreases the risk of first substance use.
Source: Bronte-Tinkew, Jacinta, Kristin A. Moore, Randolph C. Capps, and Jonathan Zaff. “The influence of father involvement on youth risk behaviors among adolescents: A comparison of native-born and immigrant families.” Article in Press. Social Science Research December 2004.
* Of the 228 students studied, those from single-parent families reported higher rates of drinking and smoking as well as higher scores on delinquency and aggression tests when compared to boys from two-parent households.
Source: Griffin, Kenneth W., Gilbert J. Botvin, Lawrence M. Scheier, Tracy Diaz and Nicole L. Miller. “Parenting Practices as Predictors of Substance Use, Delinquency, and Aggression Among Urban Minority Youth: Moderating Effects of Family Structure and Gender.” Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 14 (June 2000): 174-184.
* In a study of INTERPOL crime statistics of 39 countries, it was found that single parenthood ratios were strongly correlated with violent crimes. This was not true 18 years ago.
Source: Barber, Nigel. “Single Parenthood As a Predictor of Cross-National Variation in Violent Crime.” Cross-Cultural Research 38 (November 2004): 343-358.
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Father Factor in Teen Pregnancy
* Being raised by a single mother raises the risk of teen pregnancy, marrying with less than a high school degree, and forming a marriage where both partners have less than a high school degree.
Source: Teachman, Jay D. “The Childhood Living Arrangements of Children and the Characteristics of Their Marriages.” Journal of Family Issues 25 (January 2004): 86-111.
* Separation or frequent changes increase a woman’s risk of early menarche, sexual activity and pregnancy. Women whose parents separated between birth and six years old experienced twice the risk of early menstruation, more than four times the risk of early sexual intercourse, and two and a half times higher risk of early pregnancy when compared to women in intact families. The longer a woman lived with both parents, the lower her risk of early reproductive development. Women who experienced three or more changes in her family environment exhibited similar risks but were five times more likely to have an early pregnancy.
Source: Quinlan, Robert J. “Father absence, parental care, and female reproductive development.” Evolution and Human Behavior 24 (November 2003): 376-390.
* Researchers using a pool from both the U.S. and New Zealand found strong evidence that father absence has an effect on early sexual activity and teenage pregnancy. Teens without fathers were twice as likely to be involved in early sexual activity and seven times more likely to get pregnant as an adolescent.
Source: Ellis, Bruce J., John E. Bates, Kenneth A. Dodge, David M. Ferguson, L. John Horwood, Gregory S. Pettit, and Lianne Woodward. “Does Father Absence Place Daughters at Special Risk for Early Sexual Activity and Teenage Pregnancy.” Child Development 74 (May/June 2003): 801-821.
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Father Factor in Child Abuse
* Compared to living with both parents, living in a single-parent home doubles the risk that a child will suffer physical, emotional, or educational neglect.
Source: America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being. Table SPECIAL1. Washington, D.C.: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 1997.
* The overall rate of child abuse and neglect in single-parent households is 27.3 children per 1,000, whereas the rate of overall maltreatment in two-parent households is 15.5 per 1,000.
Source: America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being. Table SPECIAL1. Washington, D.C.: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 1997.
* An analysis of child abuse cases in a nationally representative sample of 42 counties found that children from single-parent families are more likely to be victims of physical and sexual abuse than children who live with both biological parents. Compared to their peers living with both parents, children in single parent homes had:
o a 77% greater risk of being physically abused
o an 87% greater risk of being harmed by physical neglect
o a 165% greater risk of experiencing notable physical neglect
o a 74% greater risk of suffering from emotional neglect
o an 80% greater risk of suffering serious injury as a result of abuse
o overall, a 120% greater risk of being endangered by some type of child abuse.
Source: Sedlak, Andrea J. and Diane D. Broadhurst. The Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect: Final Report. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Washington, D.C., September 1996.
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Father Factor in Drug and Alcohol Abuse
* Researchers at Columbia University found that children living in two-parent household with a poor relationship with their father are 68% more likely to smoke, drink, or use drugs compared to all teens in two-parent households. Teens in single mother households are at a 30% higher risk than those in two-parent households.
Source: “Survey Links Teen Drug Use, Relationship With Father.” Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly 6 September 1999: 5.
* Even after controlling for community context, there is significantly more drug use among children who do not live with their mother and father.
Source: Hoffmann, John P. “The Community Context of Family Structure and Adolescent Drug Use.” Journal of Marriage and Family 64 (May 2002): 314-330.
* In a study of 6,500 children from the ADDHEALTH database, father closeness was negatively correlated with the number of a child’s friends who smoke, drink, and smoke marijuana. Closeness was also correlated with a child’s use of alcohol, cigarettes, and hard drugs and was connected to family structure. Intact families ranked higher on father closeness than single-parent families.
Source: National Fatherhood Initiative. “Family Structure, Father Closeness, & Drug Abuse.” Gaithersburg, MD: National Fatherhood Initiative, 2004: 20-22.
* Of the 228 students studied, those from single-parent families reported higher rates of drinking and smoking as well as higher scores on delinquency and aggression tests when compared to boys from two-parent households.
Source: Griffin, Kenneth W., Gilbert J. Botvin, Lawrence M. Scheier, Tracy Diaz and Nicole L. Miller. “Parenting Practices as Predictors of Substance Use, Delinquency, and Aggression Among Urban Minority Youth: Moderating Effects of Family Structure and Gender.” Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 14 (June 2000): 174-184.
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Father Factor in Childhood Obesity
* The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that obese children are more likely to live in father-absent homes than are non-obese children.
Source: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
* Study that looked at family lifestyle and parent’s Body Mass Index (BMI) over a nine year period found:
o Father’s Body Mass Index (BMI) predicts son’s and daughter’s BMI independent of offspring’s alcohol intake, smoking, physical fitness, and father’s education
o Furthermore, BMI in sons and daughters consistently higher when fathers were overweight or obese
o Physical fitness of daughters negatively related to their father’s obesity
o Obesity of fathers associated with a four-fold increase in the risk of obesity of sons and daughters at age 18
Source: Burke V, Beilin LJ, Dunbar D. “Family lifestyle and parental body mass index as predictors of body mass index in Australian children: a longitudinal study.” Department of Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia, and the Western Australian Heart Research Institute; Perth, Australia.
* A fathers’ body mass index (a measurement of the relative composition of fat and muscle mass in the human body) is directly related to a child’s activity level. In a study of 259 toddlers, more active children were more likely to have a father with a lower BMI than less active children.
Source: Finn, Kevin, Neil Johannsen, and Bonny Specker. “Factors associated with physical activity in preschool children.” The Journal of Pediatrics 140 (January 2002): 81-85.
* A study that looked at dietary intake and physical activity of parents and their daughters over a two year period found:
o Daughter’s BMI predicted by father’s diets and father’s enjoyment of physical activity
o As father’s BMI rose, so did their daughter’s BMI
Source: Davison KK, Birch LL. “Child and parent characteristics as predictors of change in girls’ body mass index.” Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
* Study that looked at the relationship between parent’s total and percentage body fat and daughter’s total body fat over a two and one-half year period found:
Father’s, not mother’s, total and percentage body fat the best predictor of changes in daughter’s total and percentage body fat.
Source: Figueroa-Colon R, Arani RB, Goran MI, Weinsier RL. “Paternal body fat is a longitudinal predictor of changes in body fat in premenarcheal girls.” Department of Pediatrics, General Clinical Research Center, Medical Statistics Unit, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
* Two studies that have looked at the determinants of physical activity in obese and non-obese children found:
o Obese children less likely to report that their father’s were physically active than were the children of non-obese children. This determinant not found for mothers.
o Father’s inactivity strong predictor of children’s inactivity.
Source: Trost SG, Kerr LM, Ward DS, Pate RR. “Physical activity and determinants of physical activity in obese and non-obese children. School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.
Source: Fogelholm M, Nuutinen O, Pasanen M, Myohanen E, Saatela T. “Parent-child relationship of physical activity patterns and obesity.” University of Helsinki, Lahti Research and Training Centre, Finland.
* Children who lived with single mothers were significantly more likely to become obese by a 6-year follow-up, as were black children, children with nonworking parents, children with nonprofessional parents, and children whose mothers did not complete high school.
Source: Strauss RS, Knight J. “Influence of the home environment on the development of obesity in children.” Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA.
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Father Factor in Education
* Fatherless children are twice as likely to drop out of school.
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Survey on Child Health. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1993.
* Father involvement in schools is associated with the higher likelihood of a student getting mostly A’s. This was true for fathers in biological parent families, for stepfathers, and for fathers heading single-parent families.
Source: Nord, Christine Winquist, and Jerry West. Fathers’ and Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Schools by Family Type and Resident Status. (NCES 2001-032). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2001.
* Students living in father-absent homes are twice as likely to repeat a grade in school; 10 percent of children living with both parents have ever repeated a grade, compared to 20 percent of children in stepfather families and 18 percent in mother-only families.
Source: Nord, Christine Winquist, and Jerry West. Fathers’ and Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Schools by Family Type and Resident Status. (NCES 2001-032). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2001.
* Students in single-parent families or stepfamilies are significantly less likely than students living in intact families to have parents involved in their schools. About half of students living in single-parent families or stepfamilies have parents who are highly involved, while 62 percent of students living with both their parents have parents who are highly involved in their schools.
Source: Nord, Christine Winquist, and Jerry West. Fathers’ and Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Schools by Family Type and Resident Status. (NCES 2001-032). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2001.
* In 2001, 61 percent of 3- to 5-year olds living with two parents were read aloud to everyday by a family member, compared to 48% of children living in single- or no-parent families.
Source: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2002. Table ED1. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003.
* Kindergarteners who live with single-parents are over-represented in those lagging in health, social and emotional, and cognitive outcomes. Thirty-three percent of children who were behind in all three areas were living with single parents while only 22% were not lagging behind.
Source: Wertheimer, Richard and Tara Croan, et al. Attending Kindergarten and Already Behind: A Statistical Portrait of Vulnerable Young Children. Child Trends Research Brief. Publication #2003-20. Washington, DC: Child Trends, 2003.
* In two-parent families, children under the age of 13 spend an average of 1.77 hours engaged in activities with their fathers and 2.35 hours doing so with their mothers on a daily basis in 1997. Children in single parent families spent on .42 hours with their fathers and 1.26 hours with their mothers on daily basis.
Source: Lippman, Laura, et al. Indicators of Child, Family, and Community Connections. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, 2004.
* A study of 1330 children from the PSID showed that fathers who are involved on a personal level with their child schooling increases the likelihood of their child’s achievement. When fathers assume a positive role in their child’s education, students feel a positive impact.
Source: McBride, Brent A., Sarah K. Schoppe-Sullivan, and Moon-Ho Ho. “The mediating role of fathers’ school involvement on student achievement.” Applied Developmental Psychology 26 (2005): 201-216.
* Half of all children with highly involved fathers in two-parent families reported getting mostly A’s through 12th grade, compared to 35.2% of children of nonresident father families.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics. The Condition of Education. NCES 1999022. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, 1999: 76.
See http://www.fatherhood.org/media/consequences-of-father-absence-statistics
Acksiom
Oh my, yes!
Your family is so wonderfully special that we should just ignore all the other ones where things don’t turn out quite so fantastically magnificent.
THERE WAS NO NEED FOR YOUR SELF-RIGHTEOUS SARCASM. I was merely pointing out that not all fatherless children turn to crime, it is their choice.
The pedants who shout that anecdotes are not data are people not bright enough to realize all the anecdotes there are are the data there can be. Ignore the man.
English lesson time?
“Most are” is another way to say “a few are not”. “A higher percentage” does not mean “all”, it means a “lower percentage” are something else.
So you lucked out. That means everyone can?
Toronto Girl, Acksiom the wonderfull wrote so much trash I got bored and stopped reading half way through it.
Well, my husband and I have stayed together for more than 24 years and my daughter is with a complete loser now and they live in section 8 housing with his three children from a previous marriage who he gained full custody of.
But generally I agree that two-parents are better than one.
I’m sorry to hear that, Angel. She’s, what, 18? 19? Maybe she’ll grow out of it. Also, if he got custody of the three kids, he may not be a total loser. Maybe there is something there, after all. The guy is sticking with his kids, didn’t walk away.
For goodness sake “Axiom”, have an original thought or maybe at least summarize all the crap you “cut & pasted.”
Dumping lots of data cobbled together from numerous sites, especially government sites (does that make it more impressive to you?), does little to add to your credibility. Data has to properly collected and analyzed to become information. Collections of information lead to knowledge and hopefully someone can glean some wisdom from knowledge of the history of the world.
So don’t put down Toronto Girl for sharing her personal experience. Doing so just shows that you don’t understand all the data you dumped here. Just because you found a website with some data does not make you an expert or give you any platform for acting all high and mighty. Get over yourself.
That was a ridiculously long-winded rant. If you want to pen a manifesto, go write a book already. And it was full of offensive stereotyping and racism. The cultural rot that you tried to explain as a “black” thing transcends race, and you know it. All of America has been infected with this poison, and we of the younger generations have to flush it out. We can’t count on the “Boomers”, because they’re the ones who made this mess. And the old folks are getting tired of carrying you.
Just some words about black people in the US army. 1948: Truman stopped segregation. The experiences of black US soldiers in Germany: They could go out with whom they wanted and where they wanted like other people (see Colin Powell’s book: My American Journey). However, the feeling to be “not good enough”
seemed to have accompanied black people for a very long time.
Well, they can thank a democrat for that also, since it was Wilson who segregated them in the first place.
I have often wondered why we spend 85% of our time, talent and resources dealing with 15% of the populations. While I admit there are bigots in the world, blacks are not the only people discriminated against. They deserve equal opportunities, neither they nor anyone else deserves more than equal treatment. People are judged every day on how they speak, what they wear and how they act. For years we’ve been told that you can’t judge others based on what they do and say. We must judge them by the desires of their hearts.
This past summer I’ve seen the desire of their hearts. Not just in P.A. Hopefully the flash mob won’t come to my little corner of Paradise. Someone is going to get hurt. It’s a foregone conclusion.
First thing we can do is get rid of “Equal Opportunity” employment laws. When a company is forced to hire based on a quota for minorities, women, gays, etc or risk getting sued that is NOT Equal Opportunity. People should be accepted to colleges and hired to jobs based on their actual credentials and experience, THAT’S IT! You want a better job? Get off your butt and work for it, don’t expect a law to get the job for you.
Indeed. Does anyone else here remember the old saying, “There’s always room at the top” — ? It was coined during the Great Depression. In contrast, when the going gets tough it’s the bottom layers of the economic pyramid — the ones that are least productive per unit cost — that will be forcibly contracted.
Businesses are not charities, and employers are not idiots, notwithstanding left-liberal protests to the contrary.
Let’s have another “War on Poverty”. It failed so badly Obama has doubled, tripled down on it. No money left. Borrow more from China.
The best estimates are that poverty in the U.S. was around 30% in 1900 based on current dollars. It declined over the next 60 years for a variety of reasons not least of which was the U.S. economic powerhouse.
With the advent of the Great Society in the 60′s poverty continued to drop to 10% to 13% and has remained at that level entrenched for 40 some odd years even though we have thrown, according to what I have read, something like $16 trillion at the ‘War on Poverty’. Much of Europe has entrenched poverty just like we do in the 10% range. Even the socialists can’t seem to knock it down.
Much of what we see in the unemployed poor black community is glaringly apparent in the unemployed poor white community. Dropouts, babys arriving young and often and out of wedlock (as high as 98% out of wedlock in the black inner city and the poor whites are doing their best to catch up), drugs, no cultural work ethic, dress codes that are not necessarily based on poverty or cheap ragged clothing but rather a cultural preference for the thug and HO look in both the black and white communities indeed often brand new clothes, everybody smokes, a gun is to be desired and flaunted, little desire to take entry level job positions anywhere if they knew how to get them and probably can’t get them because they are outside the accepted standards of mainstream society in dress and speech and conduct. Generally, nice people to meet and talk to one on one during the day, but not someone I want to meet at night with their friends on the street(that might get ugly even if they know me, a friend by day on my turf, not so much when it’s me in the hood or the trailer park).
I don’t have the answer, but I know money hasn’t solved it. I did want to point out that much of what we see in the poor black community is much more pervasive than most would ever imagine in the white poor community and growing. The choices being made are the same. The outcome is the same.
The riots in Europe were very much so a mixed bag of ethnicity. I suspect when (I don’t think this is an IF thing) the flash mobs continue on pace the white kids will join in. It’s just too good of a thing not to participate in when you can get stuff you want for free and have fun kicking the crap out of people you don’t know. It takes the edge off.
How do I know this stuff. I know because I work with these folks every single day.
Note: There are some really great working poor families and individuals and I have the utmost respect for those who are trying, but boy do they ever get dragged down and used by the street crowd every day, all the time.
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I agree completely. I used to work with these folks everyday as well, for years. It was a real eye opener. I don’t see it changing anytime soon.
You are correct and can see this in Great Britain. These problems go hand-in-hand with welfare states, which free people from having to provide for themselves and allow them to engage in constant self-indulgence.
Let’s not forget that Copperhead / RINO policies on illegal immigration have contributed mightily. Isn’t Philly a sanctuary city? I can hire a teenager who has no work ethic or skills, or an illegal adult who’s motivated by supporting a family and I don’t have to pay any number of taxes and benefits. Who do you think gets the job? especially with no employer penalties enforced?
Yes, Philly is a sanctuary city….. Yet you notice that Nutter just cant make the connection between Illegal aliens clammering to his city and the high unemployment rate of young African-Americans. I was impressed with his speech, it’s long overdue, but it is amazing that someone can point out the faults, but not understand that the faults are caused by his own policies. DUH!
Being a farmer, I am one of the lucky ones that has benefited somewhat from the current economic chaos. That being said, my situation has not correlated into a higher work force on my farm. Why? Not because I have no desire to hire.
A job on the farm is considered by most to be beneath them. The few people who show up looking for a job are usually ex-cons or worse, those whose 99 weeks of work insurance has run out. Young black men view farm work as endemic of slavery days. Young white men don’t know how to do anything and expect you to be happy that they actually showed up.
“I don’t work on weekends”
“you mean there is no overtime?”
“how long before I am no longer on probation? (when can I quit and receive insurance)”
Who does want a job on the farm? Well, illegals do, but that is wrong, and we can be fined for hiring them.
I guess I will trade in my old tractor for a newer one that will get over more land…farm those crops that take less manpower….and retire earlier than planned. How sad
I don’t know you from Adam and have no idea about your hiring methods. I can say that, here in central Kentucky, the farmers brought a lot of this on themselves. In the early to mid 90′s they quit working the local teenagers and started hiring Mexicans. Their stated excuse was they could get a grown man for what they’d have to pay a boy to do the same job. What their real motives were are not quite as pure. Agencies sprang up to reimburse part of their costs (housing especially). So they could house 15 Mexicans in a stripping room unfit for occupancy or a camper designed for 4 and get paid for doing so. They could also pay them below going wages, not provide them adequate drinking water, treat them like slaves, work them like dogs, and then cheat them out of half their pay. At least a couple of farmers lost their lives for supposedly swindling their workers.
Now, kids had been doing these jobs (tobacco harvest, hay harvest, weedeating, cleaning fence rows….etc) from time immemorial and not one farmer I know of failed to get his crops harvested due to a lack of available labor. It was, for lots of these kids, the preferred and sometimes only means of earning money for school clothes, their first car, or whatever. I did it and all the kids I grew up with, both black and white, did it. Comes the 1990′s and everything changes with the influx of the Mexican crews. I tried to get at least 5 different local farmers to hire my nephew and son (both big muscular football players not afraid of physical labor) but they preferred the Mexicans.
So we ended up with most of these kids roaming aimlessly or laying around the house all day since most were not old enough to drive and any available jobs were odd/off hours, multiple shifts in one day (work 2 hours go home for 3 and come back for 2 more) so their parents couldn’t provide transportation. The farmers grew so used to treating workers like animals that the next generation of potential permanent farm workers looked elsewhere. The people that once lived and worked on the big farms to retirement died off and transients took their place. Tenant houses and barns burned at a much higher than normal rate. Barns and sheds were used for toilets and trash heaps. Machinery was destroyed/stolen on a regular basis.
These farmers got what they bargained for just like the factories who move their production overseas but whine because there aren’t enough of us buying.
Again, I don’t know you or anything about you and am only speaking about farmers I know personally here in Kentucky.
So, are you one of the big farmers that knowingly hired illegals who filled out tax forms using stolen SS numbers, claimed up to 11 dependents, and then of course didn’t have to pay any taxes?
Because I know plenty of big farmers who did just that — and still do, and would do so again And Joe is pretty much nailed it as to why.
Maybe you weren’t, and if so, I rescind any aspersions I’ve cast. However, I work and have worked within the ag business, and know some of the things that have gone on. The rationalizations from farmers are starting to fall on deaf ears here. (and that includes the working conditions and the lack of overtime pay — and we are not talking an hour or two here or there, but habitual hours of overtime each week — and the lack of any insurance should the workers get injured — which can often be directly relatable to unsafe working conditions and practices that are even encouraged as a way to speed up production and cut costs; in fact, the statistics for farm work related injury and death are quite high, are they not?)
Much of the problem is illegal immigration. They want to work, and when they do, they provide a good days labor. They are competent and know what they are doing. No attitude.
Say one thing for illegal immigrants, they are not lazy.
“much of the problem is illegal immigrants”, I beg to differ, much of the problem is idiotic regulations and minimum wage laws that make it more profitable to hire illegal aliens then local unskilled teenagers. The market will always take the best deal and as you said the illegals are competent and hungry for the jobs. We must unravel the ropes that the socialists have tied us up with so that teenagers can learn how crucial a strong work ethic is or we are toast as a people and as a nation.
Young blacks need manual labor jobs, just the sort of jobs illegal aliens are likely to take. How much better off would young black Americans be if they didn’t have to compete with twelve million illegal aliens for bottom rung employment?
IIRC, but the unions wanted the minimum wage precisely to protect them from competition from blacks who were willing to work for lower wages than the unions demanded. The minimum wage is working as intended, and it is therefore racist. And black still haven’t figured it out.
We ought to ask some black people how they feel about all this.
According to the polls I’ve seen this past year, blacks are the only group in America that is confident about their future. They’re more satisfied with the way things are going than any other group. (Working-class whites are the least satisfied.)
Guess why. Because for them, just getting a black man into the White House has been the biggest source of pride for them since Martin Luther King.
The economic problems faced by blacks are real, and liberals aren’t going to solve them. But this discussion will have to wait until Obama is out of the White House. For the moment, blacks are satisfied.
If Blacks are “satisfied,” then they are deluded. Look at the statistics in this article. That said, if they are deluded then you are right: this conversation will have to wait until the scales fall from their eyes. I don’t think the exit of Barack Obama from the White House will necessarily accomplish that, though.
“blacks are satisfied”-if asked a question that blacks “think” translates-
do you support Obama”sure, most all will answer “Yes”.
This poll means nothing. How can blacks be satisfied?
Are whites-working class who answered -most unsatisfied saying this because
they are most “unsatisfied” with Obama?
I believe honesty, realistic discussion, is in short supply.
Yes, I saw the “satisfied look” on the faces of the “flash mob” looters and those blacks attacking and beating people at random.
Yes- they are confident about their future. They assume they will not be
punished-because a black is in the White House?
One good reform would be to have a much lower minimum wage, say half the regular number, that is only for employees getting their first job, or those who have been unemployed for 6+ months. This would provide jobs for the ones that are currently having the most trouble getting one.
Philadelphia was the site of the first large industrial manufacturer with inter-state, and inter-national reach:
The Baldwin Locomotive Works.
It could never exist there today.
“While Mayor Nutter deserves some credit for calling out the teen hoodlums in his midst, it’s hard to take him seriously as someone who really wants to go after the black teen unemployment problem. ”
While you are preaching to the choir here, I would phrase it differently if you want to persuade him and others like him to go along with your preferred policies. I would presume he is serious about solving his city’s problems, but also that he is at his wit’s end from the cumulative failure of some cherished American virtues and theories that have had perverse results. Then I would offer fiscally sound and socially conservative (not the same thing) solutions.
For example, to reduce the unemployment rate generally in a relatively short time, it would be useful to cut tax rates for employers, and make it so they can reasonably calculate what resources are being freed up. To reduce the unemployment rate for black youngsters, you might propose a reduction in the minimum wage for teens. This reduction doesn’t have to be huge, and it could be done as a test, just to see what happens. Perhaps a Christmas shopping season reduction for just this year?
As for the thuggery, I would recommend soliciting the help of the local pastors. The mayor’s going to know who will be helpful, and who is still preaching that ossified nonsense that every white hand is against every young black man and woman. It’s time for the dinosaurs from the 60s to either change their message or retire. It’s time to recognize that the barriers to the success of young black men and women no longer exist for those who are healthy and ambitious. Learned helplessness is a disability as debilitating as actual, active prejudice from others, because it prevents a person from helping himself.
Among the good black families in this country there runs a strong streak of both fiscal and social conservatism. If you reach out and give them something useful to try, they just might surprise you.
It’s all just more evidence that liberals are mentally ill. They cannot figure out cause and effect. Logic and facts do not sway them from their ideas.
You want to see mental illness? Just ask a conservative about the Drug War. Their little contribution to the mess.
There is no better promoter of outlaw culture than a prohibition regime.
Give more people the right drugs and our Darwin wins.
Let’s ask a lib about the war on poverty…..perhaps the racketeering aspect.
Let’s face it. Black people to a large extend do not share the same values as the demographic we call white people. And they do not prescribe to the same recipe for a successful life.
I cannot think of a single place on the the planet with a a group of black households living in close proximity to each other that lives up to my (white) definition of a well functioning community.
Let’s not kid ourselves. Black people clearly have other priorities than white people. And I do not think it’s the prerogative of the white community to cram it’s values down the throat of the black community.
I see no evidence what so ever that this difference is not genetic. At the very least it is partly genetic and partly deep rooted tradition. And if, just if that is indeed the case, then it is utterly futile to keep going down this path of white people trying to make black people conform to their values.
The so called “problems” described in this article is really just a description of how black people want to live their lives.
Well then you have never been to St Louis. We have many stable black communities. Of course there are a number of neighborhoods that you wouldn’t go into nite or day but that has been true throughout history of the planet. Black people want the same thing white people want: good neighborhoods, good schools, good jobs, etc. Your assumption is wrong.
I’ll bet a dollar that those communities vote 95% for Obama and support every public policy that ensures the continuation of the dysfunction in the communities from which they fled. I’ll also bet that to a man they consider Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain
traitors to their raceUncle Toms and applaud any and all statements that issue from the mouths of the Congressional Black Caucus.Got to disagree with you.
Explain why they vote overwhelmingly for progressive whites who have done nothing to help them reach the goals that white Americans have since the start of this wonderful nation? Why do they elect absolute idiots from their hood to represent them in Congress, i.e. Waters, Rangel, Lewis, Lee, etc…
If they want good neighborhoods why do they live in squalid inner cities and allow Dems of both colors to tell them year in and year out, “it will get better if you just vote for me.” Why do they allow progs to let them rot as generation after generation exist on welfare?
Good schools? Are you kidding? Atlanta, Philly, Detriot, Chicago, LA caught up in school scandals all because progs have dumbed down schooling to the point it is useless to learn. Schools will pass black students anyway because we must have “equal outcomes” don’t cha know. I taught in schools were the grades of black students were raised..that’s it, just raised to make them comparable to white students.
Good jobs, what? They only get jobs because of affirmative action, quotas, law suits… care of progs. And of course the federal gov’t is the biggest employer of blacks. They cannot make it on their own because progs have instilled in them this sense of entitlement and victimization, and because they refuse to learn and act responsibly.
Essentially blacks have the mental acumen and emotional growth of children because progs have been stunting their growth in the name of social justice and power.
Foul, friend. Actually, you violate unfairly describing blacks and whites the way you do. This has nothing to do with genetics. Way off there. Old cultural traditions- also foul. It is simply not learning and not following proper behavior-period. Plus-a culture both black and white that misrepresents what happens to a black when he or she is punished and why.
I believe you should withdraw your statements and try to write something different here. JL you have usually impressed me, not this time…
Nutter is railing against the symptoms of the problem. He hasn’t gotten to the roots of the problem as discussed here. Many interpretations as to why he doesn’t. He may just now be beginning to see some light. He may be blinded by ideology. He may not want to see the problem. He may just be saying all this to sound like he is concerned for the Blacks in his city, wanting to get re-elected. It might be a mix of these things, and he may not even know it consciously, just running on instinct.
Is it genetic/racial? No. This has been demonstrated by the rioting in England. The whites there have also devolved to the same level or value systems. It is just the nature of Man. Such values as have made our civilization so great is an aberration, which is why America is exceptional. Unless people aspire to nobler behavior, unless a society at large embraces nobler values, then barbarism is the norm. Man is naturally “petty, vindictive, and rapacious”. Man would rather steal than work. He has to be taught to enjoy work. It is an acquired taste.
The Democratic Party is the child of the Bolsheviks and the Nazis. Many best and brightest having been mauled by their influence in law/court, education, media, military, business, church and politics are unable to see the forest for the trees. Having been “educated” to correct attitudes from nursury through graduate school. The more elite the more easily deluded. Use the right 10 syllable words, steeple the fingers, feel the pain and you’re member in that brotherhood of elites/ useful idiots.
The Democratic Party has spent the last half century recruiting troops and insinuating them into all civic institutions in America and the West,on the pattern of spy/mole networks. To the present apotheosis of their plans. Even a Messiah as figurehead would you believe it.
The socalled democrats/liberals/multiculturalists … copied their mentors the Bolsheviks and the Nazis in making Race a major plank in their platform to undermine the pillars of the city to ultimate takeover.
The Democratic/Liberal/Progressive Party is THE MOST RACIST ORGANISATION IN THE USA.In the history of the USA. The world? Used all the advertising tricks of the Mad Men, their puppets in TV and Hollywood and successfully sold their poison to Americans, and in fact the entire western population.
Of course black skinned AND white skinned Americans and others who saw and wanted the easy power and money there was/is in that con-game joined with flags flying. These democrats/liberals… have done their dirty work with a vengeance from the 1960s, “for the good of the people”.
The recipe for their pudding: black/brown Americans are inferior, savages who only know impulse – super sexy, are not/cannot exercise self-discipline,work, patience and perseverance. Dependent chillun who need momma/pappa Washington or the neighbourhood capo to do for them. Get behind momma’s skirts, she’ll take care of you. Line up and sign on the dotted line when we tell you to.
Who were/are the champions of these po widdle chillun, The Kennedys,LB Johnson, the Clintons,the Obamas, Kerry, Edwards, etal and all RINOS who go along to get along. Their champions even gave them special names. Separating them from Americans. Isolating them from Americans. They aren’t REALLY Americans. They’re Black Americans, they’re Afro Americans.
Is it conceivable the cooks of this poisonour dish will admit their recipe a disaster. Their raw materials poison, that no person with any self-respect would taste let alone swallow this disgusting brew. Anybody else notice so-called colour blind compassionate liberals are very caught up with black and green as descriptors and action words?
There is nothing like a Prohibition regime to teach people to misbehave.
The Right is as culpable as the left. In their own way.
It is a personal choice and it comes from nurture and nature–when you get shorted on both there is little expectation that a civilized person will arise from the muck. The question is what to do with them. How long do we take the blame and suffer from their outburst. It has come to the courts in Texas for school offensives because they aren’t civilized, of they stop coming. Sad to say but they must be taken at an early age else it whistling past the cemetery. Perhaps they must be sterilized to reduce their number. Cruel but we must protect the civilized because the barbarians are in the gate.