Born out of wedlock or a father being absent? These are not the same thing.

The end of the article says:
"Lemon said that "more than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock." Federal data confirms that 73 percent of African-American births in 2010 were out of wedlock. Estimates for the percentage of African-American children growing up in single-parent households are slightly lower, at 67 percent."

Estimates?

The chart below summarizes 2011 Census Bureau data compiled by Kids Count, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The group defined "children in single-parent families" as kids under 18 who live with their own single parent; it includes children living with a parent and a cohabiting adult, but it does not include children living with married step-parents.


Racial or ethnic group
Children in single-parent families
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
17 percent
Non-Hispanic whites
25 percent
Hispanics
42 percent
American Indian and Native Alaskans
53 percent
Non-Hispanic blacks
67 percent

Here is wikipedia's page about the above Annie E Casey Foundation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_E._Casey_Foundation

Never bought that a single parent can't raise a child, anyway. Seen too many examples to the contrary.

Kap is on the downside of his career and I'm not sure what the point of this is.Guess he figures that it's better to be infamous than anonymous. His days as a starter are over,maybe, and this guarantees that he gets a lot of free publicity.The Bay Area is the one place where he won't get run out of town asap for doing this .

I've written here before that ever since the playoff game in Greenbay where he went sleeveless in minus 5 degree weather..he hasn't been the same guy. He's adopted so he doesn't know what his actual heritage(s) is/are BUT he HAS to be part Viking.

He's being interviewed post-game and the announcer is bundled up and still freezing. She asks him about going sleeveless,and he says "the cold weather is all mental"


I think most of the criticism of CK is valid but there's gonna be some jealous people out there, mad that he's a millionaire and that they aren't . When people bring up money,right away...I don't get it. CK paid more in federal tax the year after signing his big contract than most people will contribute or earn in their lifetime.

I agree about the timing. As I said earlier, why doesn't he take this stance on Super Bowl week a few years ago when the Niners were in it? That would have been the most bold political statement by an athlete since Muhammad Ali. It's hard to ignore the fact that if he's not doing this, the curtain's just about closed on his notoriety. ...not anymore.

Another thing that's weird is evidently Kap did this the last two games as well, but no one noticed.

I don't think anyone has bought that nor has anyone made that claim. The actual claim is that generally children who are raised in two-parent households do better than those raised in a single-parent one. The keyword is "generally," which means as a general principle that allows for exceptions.

General would also mean there's several other factors. One responsible parent, of any gender, is all any child needs. You won't find an ounce of evidence to demonstrate otherwise.

Growing up in a two parent household is one of the most important factors in preventing crime and poverty. I've never bought this idea that mom could be a mom AND dad or dad could be both. Know way too many dysfunctional people hurting because of these toxic anti family ideas.

Wrong. There's not just ounces of evidence, but tons. What is your degree in again?

You know dysfunctional people who are products of irresponsible parent(s). The number of parents, or gender of single parent, has nothing to do with it.

Irresponsibly correlates with single parenthood.

A single parent that provides for their children, sees that they are educated, sees that they are motivated and engaged in productive activities, and teaches them to be considerate of others is irresponsible? You lost me.

That's not what I said.

Glad you agree, then.

The ideal environment for a child to be raised is with a good father and mother. Nothing else is its equal. Not a single parent and certainly not two parents of the same gender. And only the most delusional and ignorant of fools, steeped in political correctness BS, would try to deny this.

But he will stick the money with pictures of slave owners (U.S. currency) in his pocket no problem. This is what I argue with my co-worker all the time. He rails on the Confederate Flag as rascist and a symbol of slavery. I hold out a 20 dollar bill and ask if he wants it or has a problem with it. He says hell naw. I give him the 20, then informed him he has a picture of a guy who owned over 100 slaves in his pocket. Then remind him the flag isn't a person, not an official flag of the csa and never owned any slaves. Ask him if he is offended and Ill gladly take the 20 back. He crawfishes keeping the 20 and saying, "That's not the same thing man." My solution. Put the Confederate flag on a 100 dollar bill. Nobody will complain about it then.My other solution....Deport Colin Kap.

The "ideal" environment?

I thought you were struggling with your medical bills, yates, thanks to Obama and all. Now you're forking over 20 dollar bills to make a point about the confederate flag?

Too many single parent households and (hippies) brought us to where we are today. Everyone needs a dad and a mom. There are some qualities the other demonstrates that the other doesnt. If you want to be gay and have kids, which one is it? Two men cannot naturally conceive a child nor can two women. Good ol mother nature designed us like that for a reason. You cant have your cake and eat it. But nowadays people have rights, choices, freedoms, whatever you want to call it. Just chipping away at the circle of life.

Since I'm living proof ( plus millions of others) that being raised in a single households doesn't equate to a negative outlook nor my parents didn't get married. Don't understand why we have these re-runs on this topic when all can agree every community in this country have a shared negativity. Generalization will always be broad but not concrete and their will always be contradictions, exceptions, and plenty of overlooked norms.

It never fails to dull me that the same individuals that want to rant about community problems never start with their own FIRST but want to criticize their neighbor's backyard.

That's not proof. Nobody says that being raised in a single parent household means you're doomed to failure. Generalizations are very useful and helpful when zooming out and looking at the big picture. Everyone's different and there's not just one factor, but there are some factors that are extremely important.

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BF,

Topic was about Kap not standing for the flag. We can all read when race was brought up and by whom.

Kaepernick himself brought up race. Dont pretend otherwise. That's what his misguided stunt was all about. He wasnt sitting for world hunger or cancer awareness.

It's not like Muhammad Ali ending his career (at the time) to protest the war in Vietnam, that took balls

I like this post. Disagree but I like it.

Also ,"money don't got no owners....only spenders.
I like that ring you're wearing too."

Agree. DOJ report concluded as much.

I don't understand CK's overall point, but I fully expect him to live with whatever the consequences are....and not complain about the backlash.

I think a lot of people made the mistake of trying to make Mike Brown into a martyr. It lowers the credibility of whatever you're standing up for when you stand up for a criminal who was committing criminal act when he was shot by police.

Agreed. From what I gathered about the Ali story. Not only was he protesting against the war, he knew that the military would draft him and then put him directly in harm's way. Unlike, say Joe Louis or other celebs who were drafted, and placed in safe areas.....Ali was to be made an example of because of his outspoken nature.

Decades later....true hero,NFL player Pat Tillman...who quit the league to sign up with Army Rangers was....well I think we all have our own ideas about what happened to him.

If Tillman cold die under "controversial circumstances" in the modern era....Ali definitely would have never made it back to America alive.