The Elephant in the Room

Continuing on a subject that I touched on the other day, Kendall Qualls touches on something I mentioned in his piece at RealClearPolitics:

Anyone who examines the condition of black Americans objectively will see what I see – a culture that has departed from its roots of faith, family, and education. Since the 1960s, we have gone from 80% of black children being born into two-parent homes to 80% of black children being born to single mothers in 2017. Affirmative action programs cannot and will not make up for the decline of two-parent families over the last 50 years and its effects on generations of black children.

Research reveals that children from two-parent families, regardless of race, experience high levels of academic success compared to children from fatherless homes. A 2021 study from The Institute for Family Studies found that “Black children in single-parent homes were 3.5 times more likely to live in poverty.” The same study found that black children raised by two parents had a 70% higher chance of graduating from college, while those raised by single parents were “twice as likely to be incarcerated by their late 20s.”

The retort from those who believe that present day problems of people whose great-great-grandparents were slaves can be traced directly to that slavery is frequently declaiming that even to point out what Mr. Qualls calls “the elephant in the room” is racist.