(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Way back on Father's Day of 2008, Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill) addressed this issue in a speech at a big Chicago church. He had words for African American dads:
“Too many fathers are MIA. Too many fathers are AWOL . . .There’s a hole in your heart if you don’t have a male figure in the home that can guide you and lead you and set a good example for you. What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child — any fool can have a child . . . It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
“You and I know how true this is in the African-American community . . .We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children. We know the statistics — that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of school . . .And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it."
Some blame the white race for black fatherless homes. Jesse Jackson sharply criticized Obama for, as he called it, "talking down to black fathers." But Jackson was wrong. Obama was right to call fathers up to a higher level. It's not racist to speak the truth, no matter who doesn't like it.
Obianuju Okeocha says, “70% and 69% are very high. Surely this is the root of so many problems. It is not white supremacy to point this out and it is not racist to demand a change within our communities.
from Politico
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