Last night on NBC news, Al Roker debuted a show he is doing about black kids growing up without fathers. The big theme of the show that will air on MSNBC tomorrow night is bluntly racial: "this unsettling crisis." It looks like Roker will have a panel discussion with five other blacks about this, including Tiki Barber, for all of America to watch.
Let us be clear about what's happening. The election by white America of a black president has given black leaders a new ability to address a painful subject: the breakup of the black family in the ghettoes. Put another way, the historic and monumental acceptance of a strong black family in the White House has given black people a new security to be able to address these issues in front of a mixed audience. Because they need the larger community in order to effect change. Good for them. I believe Michelle will follow in Al Roker's footsteps here, in her own way.
I don't know about the black family; I know about the dysfunctional degree of self-concern in the highly-empowered Jewish community, the Is-it-good-for-the-Jews-ism that has helped to produce the Iraq War and the approved slaughter of 400 children in Gaza. The empowerment of a member of a victim group--President Obama--will have wide cultural resonance. It marks a breakdown of the old identity politics and victim-identification. We may not be post-racial, but we're getting there. Members of ethnic and religious minorities will be able to speak safely, in an American space, about the problematic aspects of parochial identity. This will include a new introspection about Jewish influence and persecution anxiety, and the Israel lobby.
(Phil Weiss)
The big theme of the show that will air on MSNBC tomorrow night is bluntly racial: "this unsettling crisis."
A study has given the lie to this myth that will be propagated by these 5 dupes:
The Coley study also found that black fathers who don't reside in the home are more likely to sustain regular contact with their children than fathers of any other racial group.
This show will be a consecration for White racists and supremacists. Why you even begin to think that they are right is beyond me.
Thanks for the link, littlehorn. Studies like that are what keep me sane. The urge to give up on people and become a misanthrope has gotten harder and harder to resist nowadays, and it's good to be reminded once in a while that things aren't as bad as they seem.
I read the study. A wonderful example for all black men. Father several families with several women, but be a good dad.
Screw what you do to the lives of those women, as long as you are good to th kids.
littlehorn? You meant littlebrain.
Chris,
A wonderful example for all black men. Father several families with several women, but be a good dad.
And here is a wonderful for all lunatic settler Dads! And this is just the week-end fun! During the week, have them attend hate factory yeshivas.
Oh, sure, that's responsible, isn't it?
It's helpful to know that the megaphone(tm) warriors racism isn't solely directed at arabs
I'm with Chris on this. I abhor the pandemic of single motherhood. Study after study shows it's bad news for the child.
I've seen enough anecdotal evidence on my own and don't even need those studies, thank you.
It's not limited to the black community either. But the lack of family structure is part of the equation that perpetuates inner city problems.
Leftists are only bitching about this because their single goal is to blame
the imperial white powers and denigrate anything that reflects those values–at the expense of the most vulnerable individuals in society.
So much for compassion.
I washed my hands of lefties in College after some of them took this idiot idea as far as claiming that incest taboos were a bourgeois invention. One of them even bragged about boinking his little brother.
Disgusting prats.
Sam Orwell, did you notice the fine Jewish fathers teaching their children how to defend themselves?
Would you like to see pictures of Hamas Dads teaching their children how to be suicide bombers?
I washed my hands of lefties in College after some of them took this idiot idea as far as claiming that incest taboos were a bourgeois invention. One of them even bragged about boinking his little brother.
Wow, coming from a settler fanatic, isn't incest a topic a tad too close to home?
did you notice the fine Jewish fathers teaching their children how to defend themselves?
Chris, So a wall, an airforce, and army, and a security force is not enough? No, Israel needs children toting automatic weapons to "be safe". What does this say about the wall, the airforce, the army and the security force?
Nah, "fine jewish fathers" are teaching their kids how to use automatic weapons so as to further effect a long and proud tradition of pogroms. From Haaretz:
IDF officers: Yeshiva teachers incite W. Bank teens to violence
By Amos Harel
Tags: West Bank, violence
Students at extremist yeshivas in West Bank settlements have been involved in a large number of violent confrontations with security forces there recently and in throwing stones at Palestinian cars, say military sources. Senior Israel Defense Forces officers are reportedly furious over the lack of effective legal measures against rioters and because the government is taking no steps against yeshiva teachers who incite to violence.
The officers' remarks followed last Thursday's wave of unrest in which settlers in the area used beepers to call residents to the roads to attack Palestinian cars and confront security forces. The settlers' move followed the destruction of a structure at the outpost of Adei Ad.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1005619.html
Suzanne,
Now that you got us on the topic of incest, you might like to know that Rhode Island law allows for jews (and only jews) to sanction Uncle-niece incest. No shit! See here:
http://dsadevil.blogspot.com/2007/05/incest-and-sinai.html
You, all this keeping-it-in-the-tribe crap really can't be good for the gene pool (hence the delusional settler types?) So I again suggest we hook up, 'cause ya never know, hmm? I promise to leave the goat at home.
The well-being of children of any background should not depend on the economic vagaries of the parents' lives. It should depend on a social and political commitment to the well being of all children, none of whom asked to be born into this or any other society.
The neoconservative project, born in the 1960s to intellectualize the southern racist segregationist project, adopted the "culture of poverty" argument to explaine why African-Americans, after 350 years of slavery, segregation, exploitation, and exclusion, were poor. It's as convincing as WMDs in Iraq.
It's not hard to understand why it's difficult for black men to help support families. Maybe the recession/depression will help more white people understand who's responsible for what. The amazing thing, given the economy,drug war, and prison-industrial complex, is that black folks do as well as they do.
This sort of racism among Jews is not unrelated to racism in the Middle East. It was no longer acceptable to be openly racist in this country, so they went to where it's the norm. Or they moved to the suburbs so they could be sanctimonious liberals who keep a picture of Rabbi Heschel on their wall and support Israel, pretending that MLK would too if he had lived.
Just too many racists on this site, like Green, Sam, Rowan, and citizen to keep up With.
What is truly bothersome is that the above object so much to Jewish fathers teaching their children how to use firearms properly.
But they applaud islamic fascist fathers teaching their children how to be suicide bombers.
Has anyone here read The Nurture Assumption by Judith Harris?
We need more single mothers. Hopefully by the time they have had their sixth child, they will deem it time to have eight more all at once.
Nice to have the state pay for your child support. Gives a new meaning to Daddy.
Nice pic of little jewish boys toting guns. Somehow they just don't look as cute and handsome at the ones in those old Hitler Youth pics. Aesthetics just aren't there.
TGGP: Yeah, no doubt peer groups are as influential as parents–especially these days of divorce and single parents galore. One thing most young Americans have in common seems to be a sense of entitlement and disconnect between rights and duties.
Wonder where that came from.
Obama will help it all along.
Nice pic of little jewish boys toting guns. Somehow they just don't look as cute and handsome at the ones in those old Hitler Youth pics. Aesthetics just aren't there.
Posted by: Alice
Indeed, what is missing is the hatred you saw in the eyes of the Hitler youth as well as in those same pictures showing the training of palestinian youths to be suicide bombers.
chris, chris, when I want to see a dose of blazing hatred, I just go to YouTube and pick from the collection of video clips showing the Israeli hilltop youths.
haha! David Green's post was so illogical and unconstructive…if this is how the left is thinking, they couldn't overthrow a laundromat.
As for those Jewish kids. if that was taken in Borough Park Brooklyn, ok…it would be freaky. But given what happens to children like Kobe Mandel…they have no choice.
And the crazed fervor of Nazi youth or children training to be Shaheed is glaringly missing from this picture.
You are looking at the difference between aggressors and self-protectors.