However, if there are two groups of people, White and Black, and one group has 60%* of their children living with married bio-father and mother, and the other group has 20%* of their children living with married bio-father and mother — then it IS appropriate to look at group differences.
[* estimated numbers; La Shawn, a great reporter would have these different numbers and include them -- they are part of the "facts" that Leftists in the MSM don't like to publicize.]

Every sin can be looked at as half a glass of water, with respect to responsibility. Half of the responsibility is the individual; half the environment around them — they are half-victims.
It’s arguable whether it’s half; 3/4; 1/10…
What is NOT very arguable is this: the half that is the individual’s responsibility is the half that the individual can change. By himself. By different behavior.

And it must be clearly said — changing behavior is difficult. )

But as long as the Dem Party uses the terrible results of irresponsible black behavior to claim that blacks are “victims” of others, their victimhood is used as shield to avoid the shame of not changing.

Why are people in America poor?
1) Having kids out of wedlock; getting pregnant; having sex.
2) Not graduating from high school (it’s terrible that many black boys say studying is “too white” — more white boys are starting to say “studying is for girls”)
3) Not keeping a job for a year.

There are virtually no poor Americans who have no kids, have graduated, have been working for over a year. The black-white problem is that far more blacks have these 3 poverty-causing behaviors.

But Dem Party supporting teachers refuse to teach these behavior lessons.
“I’m not convinced that marriage is natural or is a generally “great thing.” I don’t agree with the “immoral” argument since I believe morals are subjective.” D. #40

I’m wondering what real world evidence there is for this “belief” that morals are subjective?

I refuse to get into the “us as black people” mentality. Or how to “uplift the black community”. Why exclude others? I want to uplift people no matter what race, by being a witness. Either by telling them about Christ or letting them see my example and start wondering about this God I serve.

“Us” to me is my Christian family, who can be white, black, asian or whatever. I dont care what the issue is. “Them” is anyone who doesnt consistently uphold the holy name of Jesus.

To me, there is no such thing as “problems affecting the black community.” That’s the hypocritical pharisee mentality. Pointing out one race’s problems while totally ignoring another’s. Or worse, refusing to classify another race’s “problems” as the same thing. I see it all the time.

There are such things as SIN problems.

Every race is lying, engaging in sexual immorality, stealing, using God’s name in vain, etc. etc.. All are diabolically opposed to the holy nature of God.

There are very few stressing the simple truths of the Word of God. Even fewer declaring that Jesus is the ONLY way. The fact that you do declare this is what drew me to your blog.

We get so caught up in race based issues. We as Christians need to focus on simple truths and solutions, based solely on God’s Word.

LBC laments the state of black families in America.

What these libs don’t like isn’t the reporting on the “negative things going on” – they love to trot out the stories that bleed and point out poverty. What they hate is when you draw a connection between behavior and these negative things, which are merely the result of the behavior. Bill Cosby has found himself “in trouble” with some of these usual suspects for the same reason. I’m glad he doesn’t seem to be backing down.

Keep up the excellent work, La Shawn, and don’t let anybody tell you what or what not to write about. Or talk about.

On a somewhat different (but still related) note, your post reminded me a bit of this Peggy Noonan piece from the Wall Street Journal where she wrote about a new production of the play “A Raisin in the Sun.” At one point in the production, a reference to abortion is not seen as a tragedy (as it had been intended), but as a triumph, something that Noonan comments is an ominous sign of our times.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110005014

Yep, although it’s not as frequent. (I think that may be in part due to the apparent fact that black women don’t seem to find white men attractive as often as black men find white women attractive, you know?) But I was talking about the white single mothers, not the black ones.

Round where I live, we have a large Zimbabwean refugee community, who mostly live in council housing, and the children of the Zimbabwean families (whose parents are usually still together) are pretty much all impeccably behaved and happy. The same can’t be said for most of the white children who live on the same council estates.

I’m a fully functioning liberal, and I’m not convinced that marriage is natural or is a generally “great thing.” I don’t agree with the “immoral” argument since I believe morals are subjective. But I’ve interviewed a lot of socioeconomically jacked up black women and I notice one singular characteristic: all have kids. Alone. Hate to say it, but a kid can completely RUIN your entire outlook. These women get trapped into a series of low wage survival jobs; by the time they get on their feet (somewhere around age 45) BAM – now their kids are having kids. The cycle replenishes. I have a friend who had her first grandchild at age 37; I have another friend who is my age, 26, and has a 13-year-old son. If he repeats her pattern, she’ll be a grandmother before she’s 30.

What completely infuriates me is that not getting pregnant is easy! My god, there’s a birth control sticker, A STICKER folks, that you can slap on your butt and not get pregnant. What else does it take?

The answer is stable, financially prepared homes – whether there’s a marriage or not – and people who understand that keeping a child alive is NOT the same as properly raising them. The latter involves intellecutal enrichment, cultural nurturing and a whole slew of things that can hardly be done when you’re making it work on $5.25 an hour and a box of pampers (why do all these ghetto baby mama types always get hung up on who’s buying pampers…).

I’m troubled by these things. Truly troubled.

So the out of wedlock children of black British women may have white fathers.

http://www.issues.org/13.2/courtw.htm

Almost all other major problems including mysoginistic rap music stem from the demographic problem.

The article even suggests a solution. LaShawn will not like it.

I’m about to become a stepfather through marriage to a black (biracial) girl who was abandoned at birth by her father. And I have a (white) stepdaughter who grew up in a housing project and saw much of the same irresponsible behavior you’re talking about here. Men lazing around drinking beer in the morning, not even bothering to look for a job, talking about the “ho’s” they’d knocked up.

God bless you for speaking up. I only hope that there are many ears to hear you.

Love your blog, by the way.

Pete

although the father of their child might be black

Why do you say this?