Those Evil Blacks and Their Unwed Pregnancies

by Dell Gines

I have long said that blacks are part of the broader American culture, but because of the history of racism, discrimination, disenfranchisement, and psychological assault, that when things in America go bad, we get it worse, and when things go good we only get a little better. Statistics bear me out.

As of late many of us have been discussing the 70% children born to unwed parents and are like DAMN the black race is doomed!

But to illustrate my point in the first article, a recent study (37 percent of U.S. births out of wedlock) came out that shows- Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday.

While out-of-wedlock births have long been associated with teen mothers, the teen birth rate actually dropped last year to the lowest level on record. Instead, births among unwed mothers rose most dramatically among women in their 20s.

Experts said the overall rise reflects the burgeoning number of people who are putting off marriage or living together without getting married. They said it also reflects the fact that having a child out of wedlock is more acceptable nowadays and not necessarily the source of shame it once was.

The increase in births to unwed mothers was seen in all racial groups, but rose most sharply among Hispanics. It was up among all age groups except youngsters ages 10 to 17."(1)

So while it is VOGUE for the average American to point the finger at the insidious moral failure of the black men and women in America, the fact of the matter is that blacks are Americans and America is suffering this problem as a whole.

Maybe we need to rethink how we define problems as relate to race, because most often they are usually asymptomatic of broader cultural problems in the US.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061121/ap_on_re_us/unmarried_births