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Dorner -- Another Angry Fatherless Black Man With a Gun

usmcpgw Wrote: Feb 14, 2013 5:01 PM

To gauge these numbers, although blacks only comprise 13% of the U.S. population compared to whites at 65%, in 2010 blacks committed more murders (5,890) than whites (5,286). In this context, it’s not surprising that over 10% of all black males aged 25-65 currently reside in prison. That figure is a mere 1.4% for whites.”

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TommyMaq Wrote: Feb 14, 2013 7:08 PM

So therefore....what? What can we do with that knowledge that we couldn't do before?

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Dorner -- Another Angry Fatherless Black Man With a Gun

My new book, "Dear Father, Dear Son," talks about the No. 1 social problem in America -- children growing up without fathers.

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote "The Negro Family: A Case for National Action." At the time, 25 percent of blacks were born outside of wedlock, a number that the future Democratic senator from New York said was catastrophic to the black community.

Moynihan wrote: "A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken homes, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any rational expectations about the...

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