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ORIGINAL: justheather

This is one of the ways the religious right pro-lifers try to gain sympathy/votes from otherwise liberal voters.
I know, cause I used to be one.

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ORIGINAL: pinkee

maybe i'll just let my head explode; as usual; the people behind the pro-lfe movement no more care about the quality of life of African-Americans in the US than anyone else; they'll say/do anything to impose their will on others.
 
pinkee

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ORIGINAL: Estring

70% of black children in the US are born out of wedlock. That statistic is very disturbing.

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ORIGINAL: TreSwank

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ORIGINAL: Estring

70% of black children in the US are born out of wedlock. That statistic is very disturbing.

I believe that one of those quiet facts that most people are afraid to acknowledge is that people carry over the vestiges of traits from previous generations through a sort of implicit, observed learning process.  Although black people have assimilated into the culture created by white Europeans for many years, the learned traits of many poverty stricken African Americans can be partially understood in the context of their ancestral roots in Africa.

      In the same way that many Italian Americans are known for cultural traits that have been perpetuated for hundreds and years, and make up a good deal of the "cliche" loud, gesticulating, fiery tempered Sicilian image, fine-tuned by learned behavior, poverty stricken blacks show certain negative behavioral patterns because they are still crafted in the mold of indigenous Africans (because of subtle, traits, picked up through generations).

Africa has always been a bellicose country, and the hunter-gatherer way of life is still the norm in some parts of the "motherland".  In a country where poverty, disease, tribal disputes, and illiteracy rule supreme, it's no wonder that poor blacks display such a disproportionate level of promiscuity and violent tendencies in relation to the white population.

  I read an article recently, in which an AFRICAN AMERICAN governor had suggested a plan to Norplant young, black pre-teen girls, in an effort to curb the pregnancy rate, and to allow these kids to live NORMAL lives, and eventually reach towards a college education without being fettered down by the stain of teen pregnancy.  This plan was shot down IMMEDIATELY by POOR BLACKS, who argued, tooth and nail in favor of "Lashanda's" right to get knocked up at age 15, and lose a lifetime of opportunity only to become another welfare tragedy.
Sounds like a community that "really" knows where it's priorities are.

Am I fully qualified to criticize a community to which I do not belong?  ABSOLUTELY NOT...................but sometimes the spectre of common sense gets neglected in an attempt to rationalize a truth.