The main issue seems to keep circling back to the Black fatherless problem, it's significant among US blacks compared to Whites and Asians, not having a stable household and having one parent means right off the bat your likely to be on the low end of income, meaning your going to live in worse of areas that are more effected by crime and have lower quality of education. This isn't any other races fault, it has to be fixed internally.
Blacks have
far less wealth than whites, much of which is down to disparate home ownership rates. Home ownership
tends to correlate with stability, both as a community and at the individual family level, and is one of the largest predictors of wealth accumulation. And when you look at the fact that blacks are denied mortgages at
nearly triple the rate of whites, it's hard to see how that can be "fixed internally."
In much of the country, blacks face
unemployment at double the rate of whites. It goes without saying that higher unemployment leads to more financial instability. When you look at the fact that blacks often miss out on callbacks and interviews
because their name "sounds black," it's hard to see how that can be "fixed internally."
Of course, names that "sound black" aren't the only barrier to getting higher-paying jobs. Blacks are about
50% less likely to have a college degree than whites. Undoubtedly, some of that gap is attributable to not having enough money to pay for college, which sets up a unfortunate cycle where blacks can't afford college, but without a college degree can't get a job that pays enough to afford college. It's hard to see how this Catch-22 can be "fixed internally."
Individual and family wealth, of course, doesn't fully explain the education gap. Lack of college success can also be attributed to lower achievement in high school. And when much of the achievement gap between black and white students comes down to
funding and
teacher qualification, it's hard to see how that can be "fixed internally."
So what all of this economic talk got to do with the "fatherless problem" you identified? Well, financial problems are cited in more than
half of all divorces. Divorce leads to single-parent households, which in the US skew heavily towards mothers having custody. Hence, "fatherless" households.
Another factor leading to fatherless households, of course, is crime and incarceration. When you see that, for example, blacks are
up to ten times more likely to be arrested for using marijuana than whites, despite the fact that there is not a significant difference in marijuana usage between blacks and whites (see same link), it's hard to see how that can be "fixed internally."
At the end of the day, the "fatherless problem" has a lot of factors, many of which have nothing to do with personal choices or a lack of responsibility. Perhaps we should try and help remedy those factors rather than just scolding them to "make better life choices."
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You can have a conversation about this on an individual level but not on the national level. It's not politically correct.
We've moving towards political correctness not away from it and to the point where you can't have a discussion of facts it's all about emotions and feelings. As long as someone is aggrieved or upset and you can throw out one of the cancerous buzzwords (racism, homophobia, islamophobia, fat shaming, slavery, religion, feminism, gender pay gap etc. etc. etc. ) the conversation must end because whichever side is hurt will circle the wagons and shout you down. When your job or your career is on the line, you capitulate. That's how the PC culture takes hold.
