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Obama's Comments About Black Fathers: Why the Outrage?
Social Media and Talk Radio reveal that some African-Americans are angry at President Barack Obama for saying, on Father's Day, that children need fathers in the home.
"Black women need to do a better job of raising black children... that's why we have all these problems." -- a comment from a man under "70 Percent of Black Women Single," a wildly-popular 2010 YouTube post that has since been taken down by site administrators. When I read the comment above I didn't get mad, I became disturbed. Why? Because I had heard this said in so many words before and, at that moment, I sensed a tangible shift in how our community views the role of the black father. Not only are some African-American males now saying they don't want to marry the women with whom they have children, a small but growing number also are saying —on social media blogs and talk radio—that they don't even believe men are an integral part of …
Lovely9
6:54 pm on Friday, August 31, 2012
I understand what you are saying, but at the same time this needed to be said. I just read the statistics on the black population today in 2012, and its very sad. 42% of the black households have a two parent home, and the Hispanic family percentage is 68%. You have to be responsible about who you are with, and ask yourself the question do you want to be a single parent? Is this man a good man, … more ›