Family Breakdown Is At The Root Of Black America's Ills

[Geee]

Investors Business Daily:

My latest book, "Dear Father, Dear Son," focuses on the importance of fathers — and the increasing number of children who grow up in homes without one. Fox's Juan Williams understands this — sort of. He gets the "what," but not the "why."

Williams, in a Wall Street Journal piece called "Race and the Gun Debate," writes:

"Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities. Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34.

But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns."

Williams is, of course, right.

There is a direct link between no father in the home and an increased chance that the child will drop out of high school, go on welfare and have a criminal record. This is particularly acute in the black community, where over 70% of black kids are born outside of wedlock.

[Pepper]

@Geee excellent article.

 

Let's thank Lyndon B Johnson and his Democratic cronies for the mess.

[Geee]

Nope- it's those racist Republicans, always trying to keep the black man down and in his place. Don't want them thinking for themselves, or having equal rights, or to have a 'color-blind' society....................Hmmmmm. Wait a minute here. I'm soooooo confused.