WHY YOUNG BLACK MALES ARE NOT GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL

spectator.org ^ | August 23, 2010 | Janice Shaw Crouse

[ilovesarah2012]

A new report from the Schott Foundation reveals that only 47 percent of black male students earn a high school diploma on time. Ironically, this report came out shortly after Judge Vaughn Walker ruled regarding Proposition 8 in California. If the statements on which Judge Walker based his ruling are "facts," how do we explain what is happening educationally to boys in the black community where a large majority are growing up without fathers?

Nancy Pearcey, in an article on American Thinker, identified certain "facts that Judge Walker claims are now established by the 'evidence' presented in his courtroom." Those "facts" presumably will be deemed as "truth" far beyond the courtroom. Among those "facts," the following three are especially relevant for young black boys' futures:

• "Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage."

• "The gender of a child's parent is not a factor in a child's adjustment."

• "Having both a male and a female parent does not increase the likelihood that a child will be well-adjusted."

Those three general false principles that Judge Walker supposedly established in his arguments in favor of so-called "same-sex marriage" are equally faulty when applied to the more than 40 percent of today's children who are born to single mothers. They are doubly relevant when the majority of those children are black.

Here are some irrefutable facts that Judge Walker and his ilk need to ponder.

[Altura Ct.]

I just wish that we could jettison all those who continue to believe that race is a non issue and willingly will destroy this nation to prove

[Popman]

This country better wake up because now it is not just a black problem. The issues of fatherless children and people using social programs instead of jobs to live now crosses racial lines.

Actually based on numbers...blacks will be a minor problem in the near future since they are 12 to 13 % of the population....

I can count on my hand the number of young women (under 25) with children who are married...

I will quickly run out of fingers and toes counting the ones who are not married...

[kildak]

You got it: One tries to escape...

[FreeAtlanta]

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