This is brutal.
Let's zoom in on the claim and the smackdown by Community Notes, Twitter's new crowdsourced fact-checking feature.
Black fathers are often portrayed as absent or distant, but that isn't what most people experience, according to both data and Black dads themselves. Such biased portrayals are often based on who is telling the story.
There's no recovery from that!!
Looks like the issues of fatherlessness and problems with urban black culture really do have "biased portrayals" that are "based on who is telling the story"! Thanks for reminding us, CNN!
The headline on the article is somehow even worse:
Yep, no race peddling or denial there.
Seventy percent of Black fathers who live with their children were most likely to have bathed, dressed, changed or helped their child with the toilet every day, compared with their White (60%) or Hispanic (45%) counterparts, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2013 National Health Statistics Report.
You gotta love how CNN just slides the "who live with their children" phrase in without any other qualifiers so they can get another punch at white people.
Those Black fathers were also most likely to have eaten a meal with their children, the data showed.
I'm confused. Are there dads out there who have never eaten a meal with their kids? What does this mean?
Given the history of racism in the United States, some Black fathers may face disproportionate incarceration rates or have difficulty in obtaining jobs to provide for their families
Huh. Funny how they don't mention that black men are incarcerated at much higher rates because they commit a much higher percentage of crime.
From USA Today:
...although Black men and boys ages 15 to 34 make up just 2% of the nation's population, they were among 37% of gun homicides [in 2019].
Though the black population is approximately 13% of the U.S. population, it is largely this small percentage of young black men who commit the majority of crimes, including:
- 51% of all robberies
- 22% of rape
- 34% of aggravated assault
- 39% of murder
But to CNN, noting stats makes you a racist. Heaven forbid that you want to name the problem of fatherlessness that is destroying our fellow Americans who happen to have dark skin. Heaven forbid if you want to celebrate dads without caring about their melanin levels. Heaven forbid that you want to work on actual solutions that don't involve tearing down Judeo-Christian civilization for the Marxist cause!
For a narrative that better represents Black fathers, we need to emphasize who is telling the story, Givens said.
Translation: Look at the gaslight.
