I have been promoting the importance of marriage and strong families in the public space for over 10 years. However, according to one “scholar” at George Mason University, my decision to speak at Hampton University’s 42nd Annual Black Families Assembly was… meeting I’m a little better than a modern exalted cyclops.
Bethany Letiek, a professor in the George Mason College of Education and Human Development, recently I have written Marriage and Family Journal writes:
Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon whose adherents support the superiority of two-parent married families. …But it is also a hidden or unrecognized structural mechanism of white heteropatriarchal family supremacy that is essential to the reproduction and maintenance of family inequality in the United States.
This is how authorized agents of intellectual confusion in our country often speak. They specialize in soggy word salads with no cultural or academic value.
This is also why it’s so important that one of the most influential Historically Black Colleges and Universities in this country focuses on efforts that help couples sustain marriages and build strong families. there is.
Most people would think that all academic and higher education institutions share similar goals, but this is not the case. Christina Cross is a professor of black sociology at Harvard University and one of Letiek’s research collaborators.she wrote this Editorial A few years ago, she argued in the New York Times that black children do not benefit as much from being raised in two-parent families as their white counterparts. She argued that access to resources, not family structure, was the key to good outcomes for children.
Progressive social commentators are increasingly downplaying agency and relentlessly working to outsource racial uplift. They seem to think bigger government and better white people are a viable strategy for solving all social problems.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
I’ve never read a headline in the New York Times, The Atlantic, or Vox that says, “I have five kids from five men, and I love being an unwed baby mama.”
Black fathers and mothers in Southeast Washington, D.C., have a far greater responsibility to do what it takes to give their children a better life than government bureaucrats and white women in Wisconsin can do to improve their situation. owed. their It is alive.
This is because all human beings must contribute to their own prosperity. No one can lead to a better life, especially if all life begins with one man and one woman who decided to have children.
Given the relationship between family structure and social outcomes, the message from the intelligentsia to the general public must be one that encourages prioritizing marriage over prams. That’s certainly what journalists, university professors, and commentators do. I’ve never read a headline in the New York Times, The Atlantic, or Vox that says, “I have five kids from five men, and I love being an unwed baby mama.”
Many progressives have a troubling habit of living on the “right” while talking about the “left,” politically speaking. They embrace norms they criticize as rooted in “white supremacy,” but every time they put pen to paper they are defending in public what they do not practice in their private lives.
About 70% of black children are born to unmarried parents, and 45% live with a single mother. Those who claim to care about race and social outcomes should spend less time attending Ibram X. Kendi meetings and more time talking about marriage and family structure. anti-racism lecture.
Increasing the number of children born to married parents is a definable, specific, measurable, and achievable goal that is directly linked to positive outcomes for society. On the other hand, when the term “white supremacy” itself is used, it is difficult to imagine its destruction. explain It includes everything from objectivity to good writing skills.
We are grateful that Hampton University is willing to use its time, talent, and assets to speak honestly about the importance of marriage and to fight for Black families. Let’s hope other HBCUs follow suit. I look forward to seeing progressives get furious when a room full of “white supremacists” comes together to support black families.
