“BLACKS Have 70-80% Absent Black Fathers” FALSE! | Stats Matter More Than Narratives

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[00:00:00]What percentage of blacks have a father around when they're raised?

[00:00:03]>> I'm not sure.

[00:00:04]>> 20%. 80% of blacks do not have a stable father around. It is the most predictable way to end up in prison, end up as a or a criminal. It's not a racism problem. It's not a white supremacy problem. It's a fact that black fathers impregnate women and they don't stay around with the women that they have impregnated. Don't take my word for it.

[00:00:24]Read Thomas Soul's own book on how black culture allows single motherhood to continue into a nanny state type practice. 75% of black youth are raised out of father in the home. 75%.

[00:00:34]>> Let's see what Larry has to say about this.

[00:00:36]>> Number one social problem in America by far is the epidemic not of co but of fatherlessness.

[00:00:43]70% of black kids today enter the world without a father in the home married to the mother. Up from 25% back in 1965. So are you mad at what Charlie said or are you just mad at was Charlie saying it?

[00:00:55]>> So this is from Bowling Green State University National Center for Family and Marriage Research published in 2022.

[00:01:02]You can see only co-residential for black men, black fathers. It says 55%.

[00:01:12]Is that the majority or the minority?

[00:01:14]Just based off of that one percentage alone. So 55% of black men live with their children 100% of the time. That's it. Not 70% out of the household, not 20% within the household, not the minority of black fathers not in the household. 55% just using that alone.

[00:01:33]And don't worry, I'mma break everything down. So let's just get that out the way, okay?

[00:01:52]What percentage of blacks have a father around when they're raised?

[00:01:55]>> I'm not sure.

[00:01:56]>> 20%. What percentage of blacks blacks right have a father around? He said 20%.

[00:02:04]Right off the bat. Is that true? Black people, which from what y'all learned on my platform, are only 20% of black fathers in the household?

[00:02:14]>> Blacks do not have a stable father around. It is the most predictable way to end up in prison, end up as a or a criminal. It's not a racism problem.

[00:02:24]It's not a white supremacy problem. It's a fact that black fathers impregnate women and they don't stay around with the women that they have impregnated.

[00:02:33]And this the type of that you black conservatives listening to y'all. And y'all gonna sit there and listen to this white man say this about y'all. And none of y'all said anything. I didn't know who this dude was until he passed.

[00:02:45]But this is who y'all was listening to talk about black men like this when you got the ability to open a book.

[00:02:53]Yeah. That's why I put black conservatives in there sometimes, man.

[00:02:57]And she's sitting there agreeing with this >> It's three-fold. Number one, we subsidize single motherhood. Number two, it's culture. It's accepted in the black community and it should be >> culture. Okay. Okay.

[00:03:06]>> Don't take my word for it. Read Thomas Soul's own book on how black culture allows single motherhood to continue into a nanny state type practice. Which book? Y'all know Thomas Soul has written or you know published over 20some books.

[00:03:22]I've only gotten the chance to read two.

[00:03:24]Okay. But he's published many books.

[00:03:28]Which book are you talking about? You see, and people listen to this and it sounds like he did his research, but all he did was listen to a Thomas Hole podcast or something and he doesn't know exactly what Thomas Soul said. Luckily, you got educated black man up here and I do my research.

[00:03:47]>> 75% of black youth are raised out a father in the humble.

[00:03:50]>> This is the same video. We didn't cut to a different video or nothing like that and y'all don't question this stuff.

[00:03:57]>> 75%. Is that a bigger problem or not a bigger problem than whiteness, white privilege or white supremacy?

[00:04:02]>> Let's see what Larry has to say about this.

[00:04:05]>> Number one social problem in America by far is the epidemic not of CO but of fatherlessness.

[00:04:10]>> I agree that when fathers aren't in the household, that household tends to perform poorly. That's one of the things that I have consistently pointed out on my platform. However, when you say a blanket statement of fatherlessness and you don't put parameters around it, people like this woman right here, people like Charlie Kirk will say fatherlessness, that must mean the majority of black men aren't taking care of their children.

[00:04:37]>> 70% of black kids today enter the world without a father in the home, married to the mother.

[00:04:41]>> So again, 70% enter the world without a father. We going to discuss all this.

[00:04:46]Here we go.

[00:04:47]>> From 25% back in 1965. So, are you mad at what Charlie said or are you just mad at what's Charlie's saying?

[00:04:55]>> She has over 450,000 subscribers on Instagram. So, what happens when a black person shares this type of content, you think about the Hodge Twins, you think about uh Officer Tatum, their audience is predominantly white and it was nothing but white folks and also black people in there agreeing.

[00:05:17]Well, there it is. That's the statistics. Charlie wasn't wrong. All this type of stuff. So, it's somewhat of a griff to put yourself out there using false statistics. Get your fan base up from white folks to see a black person talk down about black people. It's embarrassing because none of these people have done the research to see what the actual statistics are on fatherless.

[00:05:41]>> You mentioned cultural and social retrogressions.

[00:05:45]>> Again, I'm quoting you. Arguably the most consequential of these was the decline in two parent families. Close quote.

[00:05:52]>> Explain that one >> among African-Americans. We're still talking about African-Americans.

[00:05:56]>> Well, yeah. When when when they talk about things like this, they talk about the legacy of slavery.

[00:06:01]>> Right. Right.

[00:06:01]>> And and uh and I argue, well, empirically it's not that. It's the legacy of the welfare state. because as of 1960, which is almost 100 years after slavery's ended, uh the majority of black kids were being raised in two parent households.

[00:06:19]>> And as you guys know, I covered this. I did a full historical breakdown on uh the marriage rates for the black community. If you go on my Instagram page, you can see the actual readouts going by decade by decade. Okay? And also, you can go ahead and watch my Monahan report where I covered all this.

[00:06:35]So, he is actually correct on this. But within one generation after the welfare state that had dropped down to a minority so that the majority of black kids today are are raised in one parent household.

[00:06:48]>> So this is from Bowling Green State University National Center for Family uh and marriage research published in 2022.

[00:06:56]race and ethnicity. Among fathers of all race/ ethnicities considered here, a majority had only co-residential children, meaning that they live with their children 100% of the time. And right here, you can see only co-residential for black men, black fathers, 55%.

[00:07:20]Is that the majority or the minority?

[00:07:22]Just based off of that one percentage alone. So 55% of black men live with their children 100% of the time. That's it. Not 70% out of the household, not 20% within the household, not the minority of black fathers not in the household. 55% just using that alone.

[00:07:42]And don't worry, I'mma break everything down. So let's just get that out the way. So I don't want people to think that I'm cooking the book, so to speak, that I'm manipulating the information.

[00:07:52]You guys have access to this just like I do. This is the household dynamics, the full picture. Traditional two parent households, which we're all familiar with. Married or cohabitating parents living together with their children.

[00:08:07]Those two people are married. Two cohabitating parents, which is very common in the black community. Parents live together, but they are not married.

[00:08:19]Now, before I move forward, does that count as a father being in the household even though he's not married to the mother? Does that count? Think about what I'm saying here. Shouldn't take long. If the father is living in the household with the mother and the children, but the only thing missing is they're not married, is he in the household? That's a trick question.

[00:08:46]He's there. Okay. So now granted it'll be best if those people, trust me, bro, I would love the black community to get married at a higher rate, but if that's not happening and cohabitation is working, then I will accept that. Okay?

[00:09:01]So that counts. That's what these pundits forget. They go based off of marriages and also the non-marital bursts in the black community and they translate that into absent fathers. Like Don Limit said, >> 72% of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.

[00:09:25]>> Single mother household with involved father. Child lives with mother primarily but father is active involved and may have regular visitation or shared custody. Okay. So that means he is not in the household but he's still involved. That does not count as an absent father. The CDC has highlighted this multiple times. They always uh report that black men are the most involved fathers even when they are non-residential. Okay? So that doesn't count as absent fathers. However, what the black community and you know these conservatives like to focus on is who is in the household. Father, co-residential, nonmarried, father lives with the children without being married to their mother. So, just the dad taking care of the children. That is a smaller percentage, but it happens. And those households tend to do as or better than two parent households. Did you guys know that multihome parenting child spends substantial time in more than one household with both parents?

[00:10:27]Non-coential.

[00:10:29]This is where uh could potentially be the dead beats. Let's just say that much. Father does not live with children but maintains a relationship and it varies by frequency and involvement.

[00:10:41]Okay. So, that would be what people would consider uh the deadbeat dad. So when you go do your research for yourself, yes, I'm saying when you go to the Bone Green State University marriage and family dynamic report, you will understand what this actually means. We already covered 55% live with their children 100% of the time. That's not in question. That's a fact. Okay? But 18% live with both co-residential and non-coential children. Live with some but not all of their children. So, you know, the black men who may have children with two different women, they live with one of their children, but they don't live with the other. And as the picture illustrates here, you can see the little dynamic. Very simple, right? So, part of that 18% belongs in the 55%.

[00:11:33]Okay? Now, you guys understand? All right? Now, 26% only non-coal children.

[00:11:40]You see the black man by himself. These fathers do not live with any of their minor children. Their children live with the mother or someone else. Uh and then they may see their children regularly, occasionally or rarely. Involvement varies widely. But we know CDC studies and the most recent report, 2018 report, non-residential family dynamics, they all say that black men are the most involved when non-residential as well.

[00:12:12]Okay? Even mothers, including black mothers, said the exact same thing. I covered this, okay? because most people were looking at that CDC report from 2013 and they were saying it's a self-s survey. You know, black men of course are going to say that they're, you know, more involved with their children. But when you do a similar survey and you ask the mothers of black men's children, they all said the same thing. Y'all really think black women going to lie on the behalf of black fathers?

[00:12:45]Think about what I'm saying here. If you put a survey in front of black women, so let me go ahead and lie on the survey and say that he is involved. You think black women would do that?

[00:12:55]>> Hell no. What percentage of blacks have a father around when they're raised?

[00:12:59]>> I'm not sure.

[00:13:00]>> 20% 80% of blacks do not have a stable father around. 75% of black youth are raised without a father in the home. 75% >> 70% of black kids today enter the world without a father in the home married to the mother. One of the biggest problems in this conversation is, you know, is category confusion. People combine multiple statistics together as though they all measure the same thing. They don't. Okay? So, for example, you guys see non-marital birth rate measures whether parents were married when the child was born. Full stop. That's it.

[00:13:35]Single motherhood measures household structure. Full stop.

[00:13:41]Now, father residence measures whether fathers live with their children and then father involvement measures caregiving and interactions. Okay, those are separate measurements. But online, once again, people often collapse them into black fathers abandon their children. That is statistically inaccurate, guys, because a child being born outside of marriage does not automatically tell us whether the father is involved, whether he co-parents, whether he provides support, whether he shares custody, or whether he's active in that child's life. And this is why the CDC and Bowling Green State University studies that they matter so much because those studies directly measure father residence, father involvement and parenting structure. So instead of you know assuming absence based solely on marriage status or the s you know the the non-marital burst black non-marital birth and honestly I you know I'm pretty sure you guys have learned that this is where the most of the confusion begins online. So if you look at this report here so this is the often cited statistic 69.3% of black children are born outside of marriage. So what that actually measures again that is the mother's marital status at the time of birth. So the truth about this is non-marital births are a marriage statistic not a father absent statistic whether the woman is married or not. So from moving forward if you were one of those people that were combining that and you saw 70% children at a wedlock rate and your mind automatically assumed that meant absent fathers you're wrong. So correct it right now moving forward. So this is the CDC fertility data. Okay. One of the most important findings in this conversation was that 54% of black men ages 15 to 49 have never fathered a biological child. And this is what I want you guys to do if you care. I want you to research this report and then I want you to put the first one. I want you to do this. put in CDC fertility report and then put 2006 to 2010 and then put 2011 to 2015 and then put 2015 to 2019.

[00:16:13]What I'm doing here is showing you trend analysis. Okay? Because in all three of those reports, they damn near mirror each other. It was only one time where black men came close to being over 50% of, you know, having children. Stayed the same. And it's and has been that way for the last 18 years that they have reported it. No significant changes.

[00:16:36]Black men actually mirror almost mirror white men because only 43.9% of white men have ever fathered a child.

[00:16:45]Okay? Black men, it's 46%. So when you talk about, you know, black men impregnating all these women, that is not true. So if you're saying that about black men, you saying that about white men, too, huh? Black conservatives, think about what I'm saying here, okay? If you're looking at black men and you think that we impregnating all these women, I guess white men doing the same thing. And also in the report, it actually says that it said that black men and white men are damn near the same.

[00:17:15]Simple. 70% of black kids today enter the world without a father in the home married to the mother.

[00:17:20]>> And I got another fun fact for you guys, and this one's going to trip you out.

[00:17:23]When a child When a black child is born, the father is not there. The father is not present. I got something for y'all.

[00:17:29]66%. Look at the top right there. What does that say? What does it say? 66% were there at birth. And this is another important CDC fertility statistic that people rarely discuss.

[00:17:43]66% of black fathers were living with their child's mother at the time of first birth. That includes married and cohabitating households. That is 2/3 black women's number 41%. So again, this directly complicates the stereotype that people often push online because the stereotype, y'all know it, black men are overwhelmingly abandoning women and children, right? just heard it. But the actual data shows most black fathers were physically present in the household when the first child was born. Now, that does not guarantee every relationship stayed together permanently, right?

[00:18:29]Doesn't guarantee that, but it does challenge the idea that the majority of black fathers were never there in the first place. Make sense? And that distinction matters. So, what am I giving you guys here? Context.

[00:18:42]All this has been context.

[00:18:46]Nearly all all major social science data relies on self-reported surveys. All the things that I mentioned, the political uh polling, the obesity statistics, ladies, income surveys, marriage surveys, public health research, they all rely on self-reported surveys. So, if self-reported data suddenly becomes invalid only when the uh discussing black fathers, that should raise some serious questions about bias.

[00:19:18]Make sense? That will let you know black conservatives if you're listening to a racist who's sitting there calling you blacks to your face. God duh. Many black men worry that if we admit that fathers have been there, then responsibility for the problems that exist in the black community will be shifted entirely onto black men as a group. In other words, there is a fear that acknowledging father presence automatically turns into blaming fathers for everything that goes wrong. And I acknowledge that that fear is understandable, but it is based on a false choice. What the data actually shows is that most of the serious negative outcomes people point to chronic poverty, instability, incarceration, and educational failure are concentrated within a minority of households, not spread evenly across the black population. Those outcomes are disproportionately associated with single mother-led households largely because of economic strain and resource limitations, not because mothers are bad parents and not because fathers being present somehow cause those problems. So this is where two truths have to be held at the same time. Yes, the majority of serious social and economic challenges are concentrated in a subset of single parent households. And yes, black fathers have still been present for the majority of black children historically.

[00:20:32]And today, just wanted to play that to kind of calm black men's nerves because I know the whole blame germaine dynamic because I've I've heard it uh well, I've seen it in the comments. Well, if he's saying that black fathers have always been there, then why are all our our families effed up? No, it's a small subset of the black community that's experiencing the most issues, typically single mother households. This presentation again was never about denying problems. It was about corre correcting exaggerations because statistics should matter more than narratives. And if the statistics only become invalid once black fathers statistically look better than expected, then the issue was never truly about data. It was simply about protecting a narrative people emotionally wanted to believe. And it paints black black men bad. The blacks, you see these black fathers, they're bad. Black men are are bad. That's why I'm addressing this.

[00:21:30]Okay, guys.