Jan. 14, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| Good news, I've been selected by President Trump to be a member of a commission called The Social Status of Black Men and Boys. | |
| I'm really looking forward to seeing what I can do about what I consider to be the number one problem in America, and the number one problem facing black America in particular, and that is the large number of kids growing up without fathers. | |
| I mentioned this on the Lou Dobbs show when he congratulated me on my appointment, and my appearance prompted a very interesting letter from an OBGYN. First my appearance, then the letter. | |
| I want to congratulate you on your presidential appointment to the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys. | |
| Congratulations, and tell us what the Commission hopes to accomplish. | |
| Well, thank you very much for it, Lou. | |
| Well, we just now set it up, so we're just now getting started about our agenda. | |
| I know what I hope to accomplish. | |
| I hope to raise the issue that the number one issue facing black America is not systemic racism, although that's what people are in the streets fighting about right now. | |
| The number one issue facing black America is a large number of black kids who are raised without fathers. | |
| I've quoted to you before, Obama, who said, A kid raised without a dad is five times more likely to be poor and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of school, and 20 times more likely to end up in jail. | |
| Now, the question is, why are 70% of black kids today raised without fathers? | |
| I argue that there's a connection between that and the welfare state. | |
| I believe that our welfare state has incentivized women to marry the government and is incentivizing men to abandon their financial and moral responsibility. | |
| And it's about time we have a conversation about that, and this administration is determined to do just that. | |
| Well, good for you, good for the president, and we wish you great success with the commission and achieving great things. | |
| Let me turn to now the NBA. Ratings down, game two, 68%. | |
| I mean, there's a message, and it's a lot louder than any message Black Lives Matter or the NBA hoped they would be sending to their audiences, who they take for granted. | |
| 68 percent. | |
| People have had a bellyful of the Black Lives narrative and the Marxist violence that they bring to our streets, and the NBA that is the most sanctimonious Ridiculous set of hypocrites I've ever seen talking about their messaging to an audience that wants to watch basketball. | |
| They're turning their backs. | |
| Your thoughts? | |
| Well, I think it is having an effect. | |
| I saw a poll that shows a lot of Americans have decided they're not going to watch basketball because of all these messages. | |
| You've got Black Lives Matter printed on the courtroom floor. | |
| You have all sorts of social justice messages on the uniforms. | |
| I just mentioned earlier the number one problem facing black America is not systemic racism, although these players are convinced that it is. | |
| If the NBA really wants to do something, I would urge them to reread the cover story of a magazine called Sports Illustrated, which back in 1998 had a cover story, Lou, of a black kid holding a basketball. | |
| And the cover story said, where's my daddy? | |
| And it was about the epidemic of players who had kids outside of wedlock. | |
| One player, former player, now an agent, was quoted in the magazine as saying, for every player with no kid outside of wedlock, there was one with two or three. | |
| Now, if they really want to do something, why don't you talk about the number one problem facing the black community, and that's the absence of fathers, and do something about that. | |
| You were talking about LeBron James a moment ago. | |
| Here's a man who married the mother of his children. | |
| He has been a terrific role model about the importance of a nuclear intact family. | |
| Why does he use that influence and his tens of thousands of followers on social media instead of pushing a phony narrative that the police are killing black people because they're black? | |
| Do something about the number one problem facing black America. | |
| As a role model, he's done that. | |
| Advance that. | |
| Now here's the letter. | |
| Dear Mr. | |
| Elder, I saw your interview today with Lou Dobbs. | |
| I wanted to share some information about this. | |
| In the summer of 69, I was a first year OBGYN resident at a hospital in New Orleans. | |
| Don't know if you're familiar with Charity Hospital. | |
| Unfortunately, it was closed by Hurricane Katrina. | |
| Up until then, it was nicknamed Big Mother because most black people in New Orleans was born there. | |
| And then he talks about his experiences at that hospital. | |
| As a first-year obstetrical resident, I delivered 150 babies in three months. | |
| Only one of the mothers was married. | |
| Most of these girls were 11 years old. | |
| Most people don't believe me when I tell them that, and unfortunately, I do not have written statistics to prove it. | |
| Obviously, there was no way 11-year-olds could serve as parents to these babies. | |
| Grandparents tried to do the best they could, but they were often too busy working to provide for the extended family. | |
| These girls quickly learned and or taught each other that having babies brought checks from the Aid to Dependent Children program in the state of Louisiana. | |
| They learned that if they needed more money, they simply had to bear another child. | |
| The problem with the ADC program was that these young mothers were denied the check if the father of the child lived with them. | |
| This never made any sense to me. | |
| Still, that was the rule. | |
| And he tried to do something about this. | |
| A public health physician at Tulane Medical School recognized the problem and tried to do something about it. | |
| He worked out an arrangement with the heads of OBGYN departments at Tulane and LSU medical schools to set up a free clinic. | |
| We residents manned the clinic. | |
| We did free examinations, free sexual counseling. | |
| Many of these mothers did not know where these babies came from. | |
| Prescribed birth control pills, inserted IUDs, etc. | |
| The program proved to be a huge success. | |
| Unfortunately, a group of black ministers shut us down after six weeks claiming we were committing genocide. | |
| Again, according to the CDC, nearly 70% of black children are brought into the world with a mother without a married father in the home. | |
| Now in 2006, Heather McDonnell wrote a piece called Hispanic Family Values, How Runaway Illegitimacy is Creating a New Underclass. | |
| One of the great strengths of our Hispanic Latino culture is the gift of the family. | |
| Really? | |
| McDonnell writes, Hispanic immigrants bring near third-world levels of fertility to America, coupled with what were once thought to be first-world levels of illegitimacy. | |
| In fact, family breakdown is higher in many Hispanic countries than here. | |
| Nearly half of the children born to Hispanic mothers in the U.S. are born out of wedlock, a portion that has been increasing rapidly with no signs of slowing down." The feminists rule our discourse. | |
| You're not allowed to say that men matter. | |
| You believe survivors, believe that they live in a rape culture. | |
| I will say, though, that before he was elected president, Barack Obama in 2008 gave a Father's Day speech from Chicago that I urge all your listeners, but I urge in particular the so-called progressives to read, Where he gave the fact that you started with, Tucker, about the much greater chance that fatherless boys end up in prison, end up out of school, end up in gangs. | |
| Sadly, Obama did not act on that speech, and the Republicans have not been much better. | |
| On the unmarried birth rate, McDonald writes... | |
| Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birth rate in the country, over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly one and a half times that of black women, according to the CDC. Every 1,000 unmarried Hispanic women bore 92 children in 2003. | |
| Compared to 28 children for every 1,000 unmarried white women, 22 for every 1,000 unmarried Asian women, and 66 for every 1,000 unmarried black women. | |
| 44% of all Hispanic births occur outside of marriage, compared with 24% of white births But the black population is not going to triple over the next few decades." End of quote. | |
| The breakdown of the family is the biggest civilizational catastrophe that we're facing today that is the root of the spiraling crime, insane drive-by shootings that we see in the inner city and the destruction of human potential. | |
| And it's even worse among some groups, such as the Mexican and Mexican-American teen birth rate. | |
| The rate of childbirth for Mexican teenagers, who come from by far the largest and fastest growing immigrant population, greatly outstrips every other group. | |
| The Mexican teen birth rate is 93 births for every 1,000 girls, compared with 27 births for every 1,000 white girls, 17 for every 1,000 Asian girls, and 65 for every 1,000 black girls. | |
| To put these numbers into international perspective, Japan's teen birth rate is 3.9, Italy's 6.9, France's 10. | |
| Even though the outside U.S. teen birth rate is dropping, it continues to inflict unnecessary costs on the country to which Hispanics contribute disproportionately." Heather McDonnell talked to doctors on the front line. | |
| Dr. | |
| Anna Sanchez delivers babies at St. | |
| Joseph's Hospital in the city of Orange, California, many of them to Hispanic teenagers. | |
| To her dismay, they view having a child at their age as normal. | |
| A recent patient just had her second baby at age 17. | |
| The baby's father is in jail. | |
| But what is most alarming, Sanchez says, is that the teen's parents view having babies outside of marriage as normal too. | |
| A lot of grandmothers are single as well. | |
| They never married or they had successive partners. | |
| So the mom sends a message to her daughter that it's okay to have children out of wedlock." But I noticed that in affluent neighborhoods like the one I've spent a lot of my life living in, Not one person will judge out-of-wedlock births, but there are no out-of-wedlock births. | |
| Everyone's married and has kids within marriage. | |
| What does that tell you? | |
| It tells you that the elites have lost faith in the bourgeois values that they practice but are not willing to articulate because they believe that somehow they're associated with white supremacy. | |
| And what about fathers, you ask? | |
| Good question. | |
| The fathers of these illegitimate children are often problematic in even more troubling ways. | |
| Social workers report that the impregnators of younger Hispanic women are with some regularity their uncles, but not necessarily seen as a bad thing by the mother's family. | |
| Alternately, the father may be the boyfriend of the girl's mother, who then continues to stay with the grandmother. | |
| Older men seek younger girls in the belief that a virgin cannot get pregnant during her first intercourse and to avoid sexually transmitted diseases. | |
| end of quote. | |
| Here's the real class divide in this country, and sadly it's also a race divide, the likelihood of growing up with two married parents. | |
| I'm going to break a massive feminist taboo here and say that males matter, that fathers matter, that fathers bring a set of values and norms to child rearing, whether it's self-reliance or self-discipline, honor and courage, on average, that complement what mothers can bring. | |
| And what about the government benefits that they get? | |
| Hispanics now dominate the federal women, infants, and children free food program. | |
| Hispanic enrollment grew over 25 percent from 1996 to 2002, while black enrollment dropped 12 percent and white enrollment dropped 6.5 percent. | |
| Illegal immigrants can get WIC and other welfare programs for their American-born children. | |
| If Congress grants amnesty to most of the 11 million illegal aliens in the country today, expect the welfare rolls to skyrocket as the parents themselves become eligible." And the anarchy that we've lived through with the looting and the rioting of the last month, Tucker, has been preceded by a more slow-motion anarchy and breakdown, which is the breakdown of the family, because our prisons today are filled almost exclusively with fatherless men. | |
| Now, at one time, even CNN's Don Lamont understood this. | |
| It's time now for some tough love on the subject. | |
| Someone on another network got the chance to go first because I couldn't go during the week. | |
| I'm only here on the weekend, so listen to this. | |
| The reason there is so much violence and chaos in the black precincts is the disintegration of the African-American family. | |
| He's got a point. | |
| In fact, he's got more than a point. | |
| Bill? | |
| Raised without much structure, young black men often reject education and gravitate towards the street culture, drugs, hustling, gangs. | |
| Nobody forces them to do that. | |
| Again, it is a personal decision. | |
| He is right about that, too. | |
| But in my estimation, He doesn't go far enough. | |
| So send your hate mail to Don Lamont, care of CNN. I'm Larry Elder, and we've got a country to save. |
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