Poor Earl,
You make a herculean effort to ignore the obvious…….that young black men in the inner cities are fathering children before they’re economically and emotionally responsible to do so. And they’re behavior PRIOR to fathering children has been quite irresponsible. Look at the enormous rates of high school dropouts in Detroit, Baltimore, and on and on with the major cities. The dropping out, the lack of effort in grade schools, the misbehavior, is all attributable to being born to single moms. And no Earl, no one’s saying that all young black men do this. You’re clouding the problem by getting so defensive about that. It’s just that the proportions are so high as to be impossible to ignore. Yet you seem to try. And when you give up and admit there’s a problem, you blame it on “failing public schools, or “rampant job discrimination”. Earl, you have no chance of getting to the root cause of the problem and coming up with a solution if you’re ignoring the obvious. Obama doesn’t harp on this very often. Hell, he has no solutions either. Cosby hits the nail on the head quite a bit better than you two, but he’s not coming up with solutions either. Maybe because the solutions would involve a bit of pain. If you’re interested in hearing some painful solutions, ideas that would work, just post a response and I’ll email you personally. Very few people are thinking out of the box, to fix the huge problems you seem hellbent on ignoring. -SBourg, Ellicott City, MD
