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Originally Posted by MikeT
To say that blacks would need to stop having babies out of wedlock if they want to gain success is to hold black people to a different standard then we do the millions of white parents who have children out of wedlock. It also ignores the historic and factual systemic racism that forced the working poor to remain unmarried or to get divorced....
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Interesting comment. Those comments also often ignore was seems to be no net effect that OOWB's have on the overall Black poverty rate. One would think the two - OOWB's and overall Black Poverty - would correlate. From what I've seen, they don't.
Those who make the OOWB argument often note how they skyrocketed after the 60's or so. Well, during the same time overall Black poverty went down. It appears that success, at least for Blacks, isn't that closely correlated to OOWB's.
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Black Poverty during that time span went in the opposite direction and certainly didn't skyrocket or rise in a manner like OOWB's.