[hinckley buzzard]

out of wedlock birth rate for blacks dropped from 96 per 1000 to around 60 out of 1000

So according to somebody at The Atlantic, only 6% (60 out of 1000) of Black babies are illegitimate. And you believe this.

[LightningStriker2010]

No, that is not what the statistic says. It is saying that in 2005, 6% of single black women gave birth. Almost 9% of single black women gave birth in 1980. The author cites the specific sources of the information.

Table 19, page 59-60 of the CDC site is cited. Note that a higher percentage of single Hispanic women gave birth in 2005.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_06.pdf

This other CDC link is referenced:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_16.pdf

So as noted, the 70 percent of black children born out of wedlock statistic predominantly results from the low marriage rate among blacks and married blacks having a lower birth rate than married people of the two other major groups (white and Hispanic).