Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate

ap.org ^ | November 6, 2010 | Jesse Washington

[MamaDearest]

Snips from Excerpt only website: Seventy-two percent of black babies are born to unmarried mothers today, according to government statistics. This number is inseparable from the work of Carroll, an obstetrician who has dedicated her 40-year career to helping black women.

The black community's 72 percent rate eclipses that of most other groups: 17 percent of Asians, 29 percent of whites, 53 percent of Hispanics and 66 percent of Native Americans were born to unwed mothers in 2008, the most recent year for which government figures are available. The rate for the overall U.S. population was 41 percent.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The solution is obvious. More welfare to care for these unfortunates.

[NonValueAdded]

What was DPM’s prediction?

[devane617]

Most of these kids grow up not knowing who their brothers and sisters are. Then comes along the next generation of inbred kids that struggle with all sorts of related problems. The AA community is destroying itself.

[Farmer Dean]

Thank Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society.Honorable Mention to Democrats and their welfare payments for votes scheme.

[random_user_827]

Somewhere, LBJ is smiling.

[Gaffer]

This isn't a 'struggle'; it is a goal. Where else in this world would a Government pay a female to be 'baby-daddy-absent'? Where? AFDC, EITC, WICS, SCHIP, and on and on and on.... Where? There are literally millions of baby-making females, unmarried of course, shopping WalMart, Dollar General, et al spending YOUR money. Dressed in good clothes, drive good cars, go home to homes they don't pay for, and then wake up the next day to start it all over again....Oh....what do they do at night? They find another baby-daddy-absent to give them another meal ticket because the ones they have now are getting too old...(with 'tickets' of their own).....We need to stop this foolishness....

[apoxonu]

According to the US Census Bureau, the rate was 22% in 1960, before the Great Society and its immense welfare program was created.

IMHO, the continuation and expansion of these programs proves the Democrat party is still teh party of racism. Different tactics, same story.

[BuckyKat]

You get more of what you subsidize. God forbid we condemn black “culture.”

[hosepipe]

What is the percentage of black babies aborted?.. beyond the 72% figure?...

[blam]

"We need to stop this foolishness...."

You're just a mean-spirited Republican. (You actually expect these people to be responsible for anything?)

[Clock King]

The future of America if the Left has its way.

[Farmer Dean]

I don’t know if he can smile in hell,but Lyndon sure must have hated black people to inflict the Great Society on them.

[stevio]

This isn't a 'struggle'; it is a goal.

That's how I see it too. I was working in the hood this summer and heard a woman say that her son has 12 kids. At first I thought "wow, more power to them", but the more I thought about it, the more I think that they're not all from the same mother.

[wardaddy]

one in three whites and over half of latinos

this is nothing but a recipe for disaster

[bigbob]

40 year career eh? Yep, it’s been about that long since the Supremes sang “Love Child”.

If you’re sick of hearing this song on the oldies station, take a listen to this version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEQlIVjib-M&feature=related

Morality isn’t the only thing that’s gone downhill in the past 40 years.

[grumpygresh]

“The solution is obvious. More welfare to care for these unfortunates.”

And I would add that they must vote for more Democrats. Oops, I guess they have maxed out on that one.

[oh8eleven]

IIRC it was 70% - 80%.
And IIRC again, he was called an ignorant racist.

[Free in Texas]

It’a a brilliant scheme, actually. ‘Grow your own’ voters! The Dems are farming them.

[Don Corleone]

Our neverending appreciation to LBJ and the Dumbokrats.