“He excercised is 1st amendment right ?”
That’s right.
He exercised his 1st amendment right and neither the police or anyone else in the government arrested him for expressing himself.
Unfortunately for him, the First Amendment does not extend to his franchise agreement.
Part of the answer for your noted difference in black culture from 50 years ago.
From the web:
“Economics professor Walter E. Williams writes: “According to the 1938 Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, that year 11 percent of black children and 3 percent of white children were born to unwed mothers.”
In mid-1960s America, the nation’s out-of-wedlock birth rate (which stood at 7.7 percent at the time) began a rapid and relentless climb across all demographic lines, a climb that would continue unabated until 1994, when the Welfare Reform Act helped put the brakes on that trend.
Today the overall American illegitimacy rate is about 40.7 percent (29.1 percent for non-Hispanic whites). For blacks, it is about 72 percent—approximately three times the level of black illegitimacy that existed when the War on Poverty began in 1964.”