He was talking to the NAACP convention.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080714/...r/obama_blacks

This isn't a feint to the center -- he's been talking about this sort of thing for a very long time.

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it is not just Blacks .I think all fathers need to step up .

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Fair enough. His remarks were targeted at his audience, so it was blacks.

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I will give Obama some promps here and he is a good father.

The majority of us Black men already take responsibility.

I see many of them leave out of my subdivision every morning on their way to work.


E.Pluribus Unum

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People of power have NO good will and people of good will have NO power.

If you think Education is Expensive try Ignorance.

Its weak too speak and blame somebody else when you destroy yourself.

That statement is a lie. 75% of black children are born out of wedlock.

haha. BillyBob, you should like Obama for what he said. You guys preach a common message for black people to take more responsibility.

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy...the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~John Kenneth Galbraith

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ~Winston Churchill

The Christian Right is neither

I absolutely agree with that message. Bill Cosby has been preaching that message for years and the blacks hate him for it. Now Obama says it and Jesse Jackson wants to cut his nuts off and SBB can't even get his facts straight! The blacks are all fighting amongst themselves. Priceless!!!!

This is like 'Operation Chaos' on crack!

See more proof obama is a racist, just like the conservatives have been saying!!! His white half hates blacks, and his black half hates whites!!!

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And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. Thomas Jefferson

That's just evidence of the parents not being married, not evidence that the parents aren't taking responsibility.

For what it's worth, here's the latest study on births in the United States.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_06.pdf

37% of all births in the United States are out of wedlock.

Teen births have fallen to the lowest level on record, not exactly what you would expect if people were shirking morality and responsibility.

Broken down by race, the percent of births that were out-of-wedlock looks like this:

Asian: 16.2%
Whites: 25.3%
Hispanics: 48%
American Indians: 63.5%
Blacks: 69.9%

At least now you can use accurate numbers.

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