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"All My Babies' Mamas": Tombstone For Black Families



Nadra Enzi, a moderate-conservative Republican blogger in Louisiana, slams rapper Shawty Lo's new reality TV show on the Oxygen Network: "Pardon me while I exhale a ragged sigh. As a champion of old school values, I see this show as a tombstone landing atop the fractured carcass of the defunct American Black family unit. Lo has 11 children with ten different women??? Dear God, this is liberal moral relativism writ large in the lives of one man; nearly a dozen women and millions like them."

More: "A family 'unit' this fractured shouldn't be celebrated. We are drowning in children with no home training ([G]oogle it if the term's too old school for you). Seventy two percent of Black babies are born to unwed mothers. Let that sink in. Nearly 80% of future American Black adults have no father around in their formative years. Instead of reality TV shows celebrating this horror, programs lauding marriage; responsible fatherhood and mentorship seem a better bet."

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