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Posted by Charles G on Thu Apr 21 18:31:57 2005, in response to Re: A honest cultural question..., posted by brooklynQB on Thu Apr 21 18:18:40 2005. The single parenting and rate of male incarceration are absolutely linked.To a degree, it is economic -- but at some point it becomes cultural. Single teenage girls have babies that they aren't prepared to handle -- so those children grow up without strong parental role models and repeat the mistakes of their parents (men to jail, women to single motherhood). Eventually, you have 50 year old great grandmothers. And to put it bluntly -- if you're a 10 year old child who has a father in jail and a grandfather in jail (if you're unlucky enough to even know who they are) and an unmarried mother and an unmarried grandmother, the probability of your living the American Dream are pretty darn close to 0%. But that's not Black Culture (or "African American" culture, or whatever the name of the day might be). It applies equally to the whites in many parts of West Virginia. I think the mistake many make is to think there is one Black Culture. There isn't one White Culture -- why would anyone think there'd be only one Black Culture. |
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