Earl needs a clue
Filed Under (Culture War, Politics) by Don C on 19-06-2008
Earl Ofari Hutchinson seems to be a silly ass…
[T]his kind of over the top, sweeping talk about alleged black father irresponsibility from Obama isn’t new. In stump speeches, he’s pounded black men for their alleged father dereliction, irresponsibility and negligence. Whether Obama is trying to shore up his family values credentials with conservatives, or feels the need to vent personal anger from the pain and longing from being raised without a father, or criticizes out of a genuine concern about the much media-touted black family breakup is anybody’s guess. But Obama clearly is fixated on the ever-popular notion of the absentee black father. And that fixation for whatever reason is fed by a mix of truth, half truths and outright distortion.
Yeah, there is absolutely no basis in fact to support a claim that black males are generally irresponsible fathers. Obama just has a misguided fixation that would make him tell these horrible lies against blacks.
I am kind of surprised that Pajamas Media would even run such a silly argument. Lots of good stuff in the comments, though. A sample:
Being a responsible father, not having kids with multiple women, providing for the needs of your children…are not behaviors unique to white/Asian men….but there would be an enormous stigma attached to white/Asian members of that culture for “bad behavior” in those situatons. There could exist no excuse (poverty, loss of job etc) which would remove the stigma or “excuse” the behavior.
If 65-70% of black children are born into single mother families, and black culture says…”well, you know…that’s the white man’s fault”…that issue isn’t going to go away.
Another sample:
I didn’t know where this poison came from at the time, but I do remember the black kids at school calling the smart black kids, the ones with decent academic records, the ones who could read, write, and speak well — oreos. They were very specific: if you succeed academically, you aren’t really black. I heard those words hurled at my friends. And now, I know that they got if from church.
