America has always had a problem with revisionist history, from the ever-interesting debate on the reason for the Civil War to the recurrent fiction of a post-racial America. So it doesn’t surprise me that Black folk engage in a similar rampant fallacy about our own community. Let’s talk about the Black Family™, shall we?
I don’t think anyone would deny that Black families are a sore topic, especially with the “72% Black single mother” statistic having floated around over the past few years. We lament and theorize about what “killed” the Black Family™ and caused so many broken homes. And when the dust settles, I see so many reach for a comfortable culprit: Black women. We’re an easy target.
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