Several questions if you'd be so kind as to answer:
What do you think is the systemic cause of single parent households in the black community?
This chart shows illegitimacy over time for different ethnicities. Do you believe the country is systemically MORE racist now than before the civil rights movement, and that accounts for the sharp increase in black illegitmacy?
Earlier you said:
Poverty, lack of employment, all that. So you absolutely can't ask Black American populations to change that because...well, it's not exactly under their control. Yeah, you could say, "well, why don't the black fathers just stay with the kids?" Again, environment. Poverty and lack of employment (which contributes to poverty) leads both to raised crime rates (which lands many young black fathers in prison, away from their children, creating more single parent households), and to, well, scared kids who don't feel they have the ability to raise their child. And so, they leave. Irresponsible, yeah, but not a phenomenon exclusive to black people in the slightest. So, yeah, not a part of the cultural identity, and not really something that they can control.
Why can't black single mothers raise their children to stop giving sex to shitty men until they are in a stable environment? This can apply to any ethnicity. There is no reason the cycle of poverty/single parenthood has to continue. Would you agree that single motherhood is a socially reinforced behavior that is not related to systemic racism and CAN be changed from inside the community?
