[genefromjersey]

I'm not too comfortable with the "Black Bastards" part of that title.Technically, a person born out of wedlock is a bastard BUT the word "bastard" has become so strongly perjorative over the years, I try not to use it. As someone pointed out to me over 40 years ago, a child does not choose the circumstances of birth.

[Cagey]

...a child does not choose the circumstances of birth.

Well said, Gene. The only real "bastards" (as the word now implies) are those who gave birth to these children and refuse to accept any responsibility and do the right thing.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Technically, a person born out of wedlock is a bastard BUT the word "bastard" has become so strongly perjorative over the years, I try not to use it.

Let's think about WHY the term is so perjorative. I believe it is because society was so down on illegitamate children in times past (because someone would have to pick up the tab, possibly for religious reasons) that many of them became bad actors in reaction to their constant ill treatment--real bastards, so to speak. Of course, there's also the family pathology aspect of single parent upbringing, which may or may not be more relevant to our times than times past.