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Being a black man:
He's not there in the house. Will he be there for his son?
msnbc ^
Posted on 12/18/2006 10:52:29 AM PST by celejrm313
When 19-year-old Donné McDaniel became pregnant last year, Tim Wagoner didn't consider marrying her.
"Nah, man, it wasn't really discussed. We're just friends."
They'd dated a year. The pregnancy wasn't planned.
Now their son, Zyhir, is 4 months old. Zyhir stays here, stays there.
It's 11 a.m., a cold fall morning. A darkened rowhouse in Northwest Washington, just off Georgia Avenue. "Cold Case Files," the television cop show, is the only electric illumination in the room. Cries come from the crib by the couch.
"You fussin', shorty? You don't want to be in there?"
A tattooed hand reaches down, pulls little Zyhir up to his lap. "The bottle? This it?"
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To: celejrm313
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posted on
12/18/2006 10:55:04 AM PST
by
kellynch
("Our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves." -- Bernard Baruch)
To: celejrm313
The continuing legacy of Welfarism. The White Socialist Masters keeping Americans of African descent chained to the plantation of Bureaucratic Bounty. (What they don't tell you is, that the Bounty is all for the Bureaucrats.)
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posted on
12/18/2006 10:58:16 AM PST
by
samtheman
(The Democrats are the DhimmiGods of the New Religion of PC)
To: celejrm313
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:00:08 AM PST
by
RayStacy
To: celejrm313
This article reminds me of those old 'yo momma' jokes:
- Yo momma so fat when she has sex, she has to give directions!
- Yo momma so fat she put on her lipstick with a paint-roller
- Yo momma so fat she has to use a VCR as a beeper!
- Yo momma so fat when she dances the band skips.
- Etc
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:00:17 AM PST
by
jdm
(Posting is a bore without 11994)
To: celejrm313
After witnessing, over a sustained period of time, the unmitigated disaster of so many of these "inner city" families I changed my view of gay marraige.
We need loving, responsible adults raising children....regardless of sexual preference.
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:02:41 AM PST
by
zarf
To: samtheman
it is almost scary--the reality of fatherhood in America.
To: celejrm313
This is a bit of an oblique view, but this story serves as a case study in the ongoing war on the middle class. Unfortunately, there are those who think that this scenario is perfectly normal and there are plenty who want to be at the top of the food chain when it comes to "providing" for these ignorant fools as long as the votes come in (the middle class is ignored, of course, except as a source of revenue).
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:04:33 AM PST
by
relictele
To: samtheman
"The White Socialist Masters keeping Americans of African descent chained to the plantation of Bureaucratic Bounty."
There's a two-way, symbiotic relationship going on there. Nobody is chained to anything.
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:04:57 AM PST
by
L98Fiero
(The media is a self-licking ice-cream cone)
To: jdm
Yo momma's so old she's in Jesus' yearbook!
Yo momma's so short she poses for trophies!
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:05:09 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. He's a Socialist. And unqualified.)
To: kellynch
The future of the NBA. No, but seriously these children
have little chance of becoming responsible adults.
It's a tragedey created with the aid of liberalism.
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:05:41 AM PST
by
ChiMark
To: ChiMark
with this becoming the norm it is almost scary to envision the world in 30 years (once all of these children are adults and should be supporting the U.S. economy). How will we remain a superpower when our children will be lucky to graduate high school (not to mention criminal records)
To: celejrm313
Today, he's in class and the subject is math. He's worn down by a killer headache and it's hard to concentrate.BS. It's just hard work and watching TV is easier.
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:10:00 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: celejrm313
The D.C. Health Department just won a $10 million, five-year grant for programs designed to help fathers with the basics of supporting their children..... There is little empirical evidence to suggest how these efforts are working. Jeffrey M. Johnson, president of the National Partnership for Community Leadership, a Washington-based nonprofit that promotes black fatherhood, says that 9 out of 10 "fatherhood" programs are informal mentoring and offer little life-changing help. And the libs wail, "If only it had been a $20 million, ten-year grant..."
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:10:37 AM PST
by
workerbee
(Democrats are a waste of tax money and good oxygen.)
To: zarf
We need loving, responsible adults raising children...
Indeed we do, which is precisely why homosexuals are or should be excluded from this discussion.
Are homosexual households, as the article suggests, simply another variant of human relationships that should be considered, along with marriage, as "part of mainstream American society"?
On the contrary, the evidence indicates that "committed" homosexual relationships are radically different from married couples in several key respects:
· relationship duration
· monogamy vs. promiscuity
· relationship commitment
· number of children being raised
· health risks
· rates of intimate partner violence
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02
So you see, by placing children either in situations where homosexuals adopt them or they are raised by "married" gays, you are subjecting them to a form of institutionalized, politically driven child abuse and setting them up for failure.
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:10:52 AM PST
by
Old_Mil
(http://www.constitutionparty.com/)
To: celejrm313
Welcome to Hillary's village.
To: celejrm313
I keep thinking of that poor little baby being bounced around like a ping-pong ball. I would be so confused about where I lived or were I belonged if I were moved about like he is.
but I guess his parents are doing the best they can. it's too bad they don't think of marrying and making Zyhir's life more easier.
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:11:12 AM PST
by
Anne of DC
( HO! HO! HO! MERRY CHRISTMAS!)
To: celejrm313
Now their son, Zyhir, is 4 months old. Zyhir stays here, stays there. Sounds like poor Zyhir gtes passed around like a football. But really... Zyhir??????
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:12:33 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
To: celejrm313
welcome to your future...We (blacks) are just canaries in the social coalmine... Thanks liberals...
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:14:42 AM PST
by
Nat Turner
(DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME)
To: Rummyfan
Seems like poor little Zyhir is nothing more than an obstical to his parents,maybe he should have kept his pants pu and she should have kept her legs closed if they wanted thier freedom.
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posted on
12/18/2006 11:15:23 AM PST
by
Anne of DC
( HO! HO! HO! MERRY CHRISTMAS!)
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