Black Fathers Matter | 5 Minute Video
Which poses a bigger threat to black communities: Racism? Or the absence of fathers? Drawing on a sea of official data and his own upbringing, talk-show host Larry Elder shows just how important black fathers are in turning boys into responsible and happy men–and how their absence has had a tragic impact on millions of black Americans.
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Script:
Years ago, I interviewed Kweisi Mfume, then the president of the NAACP. “As between the presence of white racism and the absence of black fathers,” I asked, “Which poses the bigger threat to the black community?” Without missing a beat, he said, “The absence of black fathers.”
It was President Barack Obama who said, “We all know the statistics. That children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of school and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.”
The Journal of Research on Adolescence confirms that even after controlling for varying levels of household income, kids in father-absent homes are more likely to end up in jail. And kids who never had a father in the house are the most likely to wind up behind bars.
In 1960, 5 percent of America’s children entered the world without a mother and father married to each other. By 1980 it was 18 percent, by 2000 it had risen to 33 percent, and fifteen years later, the number reached 41 percent.
For blacks, even during slavery when marriage for slaves was illegal, black children were more likely than today to be raised by both their mother and father. Economist Walter Williams has written that, according to census data, from 1890 to 1940, a black child was more likely to grow up with married parents than a white child.
For blacks, out-of-wedlock births have gone from 25 percent in 1965 to 73 percent in 2015. For whites, from less than 5 percent to over 25 percent. And for Hispanics, out-of-wedlock births have risen to 53 percent.
What happened to fathers?
The answer is found in a basic law of economics: If you subsidize undesirable behavior you will get more undesirable behavior. In 1949, the nation’s poverty rate was 34 percent. By 1965, it was cut in half, to 17 percent — all before President Lyndon Johnson’s so-called War on Poverty. But after that war began in 1965, poverty began to flat line. From 1965 until now, the government has spent over $20 trillion to fight poverty.
The poverty rate has remained unchanged, but the relationship between poor men and women has changed – dramatically. That’s because our generous welfare system allows women, in effect, to marry the government. And this makes it all too easy for men to abandon their traditional moral and financial responsibilities. Psychologists call such dependency “learned helplessness.”
How do we know that the welfare state creates disincentives that hurt the very people we are trying to help? They tell us.
In 1985, the Los Angeles Times asked both the poor and the non-poor whether poor women “often” have children to get additional benefits. Most of the non-poor respondents said no. However, 64 percent of poor respondents said yes. Now, who do you think is in a better position to know?
Tupac Shakur, the late rapper, once said: “I know for a fact that had I had a father, I’d have some discipline. I’d have more confidence.” He admitted he began running with gangs because he wanted the things a father gives to a child, especially to a boy: structure and protection.
“Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can,” Shakur said. “You need a man to teach you how to be a man.”
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Your father is a wise man. I grew up without a father since my parents got divorced when i was 13. My mother did what she could. My teachers where my male rolemodels.
US Grant and Lincoln were Republican. So was MLK… Democrats were slave owners and the party of the KKK and Jim Crowe. So why you still vote for your masters???.. I don't understand… A few free bucks a month and some food stamps??? That's all it takes to keep you on the government plantation and sell your soul to the devil that hates you???
The money was allocated for that, so people would vote. Then it went into the politicians pocket… Same with pharmacy industry. No money in the cure. All the money is in looking for the cure and treating the symptoms enough for people to come back for more
Obama was telling the truth, but not telling that he was using it to do exactly that, split up families. You have to know what's wrong in order to use it to make it worse, if your goal is evil
If 2 gay black men get married and adopt a child, which one is responsible for abandoning the family??🤔
Fathers need to raise boys, Mothers need to raise girls. Only a father can teach a boy to grow into a good man and only a mother can teach a girl to grow into a good woman.
4:39 Elder Sr. Buah, Stay Up Ma Buah!
What a wonderful legacy your father created.
Promoting black fatherhood will never ever be a thought in the U.S. government’s preview. Rather the complete elimination of the black man and consequently the black race altogether remains the goal. Just go back in history. Each presidential administration has never really [in heart] been for the black race if you consider presidential policies. One administration set out to destroy the native Americans with great fervor. Survival of the fittest is understandable as who shall dominate: us or them(?).
Si lees este comentario, tus padres morirán dentro de los próximos 5 años. Para deshacerse de esta bronca, tienes que copiarlo y pegarlo en otros cinco videos
Soy una víctima, lo siento 💀
Louder for us in the back
4:37…facts. especially if the people who determine the out come is corrupted.
Mr. Elder is the bomb…California needs him like no other. Imagine he's running California instead of newscum… we'd all be better off for sure. Happy fathers day.. 23 years a father and counting.
I’m adding Larry to my listening list. That was well informed, smart and concise delivery. Incentivizing state dependency at the cost of two parent families is a monstrous thing to perpetuate. No wonder successful black families are so tight. Makes me wonder how I would have turned out in the same type of politically manufactured single parent household..
I was raised with no dad and I 100% confirm everything that was said here. And I'm white. Poverty, depression… Thank God I wasn't stealing or I'd be behind bars now.
Born in the late 70s, Grew up 80s without a Father, into the 90s I Got Sick of My Mother always Saying other Boys are more Men than you, This boy can Wish and Wax a Car Real good you can't, This Boy can Tie a Tie Match Colors you Can't, Because Those Boys Were Raised by Fathers
Thank you Larry !
That was fantastic!
Well black fathers have to be alive to do fathering don't you agree?
Scripture says “The tree is known by the fruit it bears.” Larry Elder’s Father was a very strong tree and Larry is proof.🙏🏼🇺🇸
Love ya Larry !
It's not a race issue, it's a family issue.
Fighting for my son https://youtu.be/YJ7L7l16WPE?si=9ClY8u3ATQf7SqH5
The most likely factor for this issue is women being financially independent and more able to divorce abusive men. In the past, when women were housewives, they would put up with abusive men because they needed someone to financially support them.
I'm Iranian in Los Angeles, and every other successful Iranian I know has both parents in their house.
It's impossible here in Kentucky not to notice how many kids are not only in homes with no dad, but no dad AND mom. Thanks to drug addiction, for the most part, around 30% of my players are being raised by a grandparent/aunt/uncle.
They do, so why do white cops like to make up charges just to harass someone just walking around?
Good fathers are needed, not just fathers.
The kids are much better off without a sorry fathers. Based on the caliber of men and women being produced these days, children would be better off in orphanages and foster care. What's hurting kids even more than absent good fathers, are terrible parents, who are teaching them wrong, then they are propagandized at school to be even worse.
The bad part is, Tupac’s father was alive the whole time. His mom kept him from him because she was addicted to crack and he didn’t approve.
The (lesbian hijacked) feminist movement has been diminishing the role of men as fathers for decades. Biological males have been the target of organized marginalization for the last 40+ years.
Just because it might be helpful to have a father in the home, providing he is a good partner…not always the case,S does not mean that it changes systemic racism. So what if we have spent $20 trillion from 1965 to present, we have not changed the way our current system keeps people in poverty.
Loool I find this video title so funny.
Black fathers matter
Like many black wise people, Larry Elder offers the wise advise to the black community. Until they listen to these advice, nothing will change.
White supremacy or Asian supremacy or brown supremacy are not the problem of the black community.
This shit really makes me appreciate my father
It is easily proven LBJ was a bigot. In his sheep's clothing he declared war on poverty. That is..war on those who are poor. Where the intended main target…was the black community. The outcome of which is perhaps worse than slavery itself.
My dad was a pilot, then came to America and worked hard to start his own little company bat 60 and I tell you what he made a 5 star doctor out of me as people call me.
Often times kids don't know what MOM put DAD through and the barriers between fathers and their kids. Moms can be cruel and if they don't like you, you won't be seeing your kids any time soon. Never forget that fact before it's right to dad's a deadbeat.
Fathers matter period. The welfare state and nanny goverment holds dads to very high standards and moms to very minimal standards.
Where are they????😢😢😢
I beat the statistics 2 fold
Black Fathers Matter.
BLM doesn't view that Black Fathers have a Place in the Home.
They are a Feminist Lesbian Movement wanting to disrupt the Nuclear Family where a Father is the head of house.
A Black Father should be respected as the Master of his Domain.
Us White Conservatives are not your Enemy! We view that Black Men are an important Figure in the Home and the lack of his presence is what has caused the decay of the Black Neighborhood.
Leftist have marginalized the Black Man and have corrupted the Black Woman into believing that the Government is a Viable replacement for a Father in the Home.
It's time we stop letting the Left use Racism to divide us and it's time us Men unite as one to bring back the Traditional Family which has made our Nation Strong and our Communities Safe.
Black Fathers Matter!
BLM's Agenda
Never a Father mentioned. They want instead a Marxist Commune Style society where a Black Man is not the head of his House. Notice the words they use "Mother, Parents"
They intentionally avoid the word "FATHER".
"We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable,”
REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL
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