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CNN got blasted into next week by this community note on a story about black dads
Not The Bee ^ | June 19, 2023 | Staff

Posted on 06/19/2023 11:16:24 AM PDT by Red Badger

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.


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1 posted on 06/19/2023 11:16:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Maybe they can help the child with those things because they are home and not working. I doubt the numbers on that,but just a thought.


2 posted on 06/19/2023 11:20:25 AM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: Red Badger

How many of the 36% who think they are living with their biological fathers actually are?


3 posted on 06/19/2023 11:21:48 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Red Badger

“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.”

Goven the disproportionate percentage of black men committing crimes they may face incarceration.


4 posted on 06/19/2023 11:22:00 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Red Badger

The legacy news media do NOT like having their politically correct lies exposed to their entire audience.

Musk’s “community notes” feature is genius.


5 posted on 06/19/2023 11:24:59 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: Red Badger

Statistics are racist, and harken back to their white supremacy roots.

/s


6 posted on 06/19/2023 11:37:17 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: Red Badger

This is what leftists call destroying free speech....lol. How dare facts come into play. Musk took away their cocoon like echo chamber... now they butt hurt


7 posted on 06/19/2023 11:38:57 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Red Badger

Maybe CNN shouldn’t engage in extreme gaslighting around open flames.


8 posted on 06/19/2023 11:40:56 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Red Badger

If white liberals at CNN reported the truth about the black community they would know that before LBJ (President Johnson) and his sick ‘Great Society Garbage) that the black and white marriage rate was similar - and almost as many black fathers were in the home as white fathers.

White liberals also feel conservatives who back Trump are in a cult state of mind... and that our people who object to pornography in K-3 rd grades are ‘domestic terrorists’..

The biggest danger here is the closed minded stupidity of white liberals - the kind who run CNN.


9 posted on 06/19/2023 11:57:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black dem thugs, white liberal 'elites', sexual weirdos -- democrat's team against the rest of us)
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To: Red Badger

I have seen many black dads who look like they are great fathers and care/love their wives and kids. But I truly believe that is the exception rather than the rule. Especially up here in WA-USSR. I mostly see women with kids…no male to be seen. Very sad.


10 posted on 06/19/2023 1:26:21 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Red Badger
I worked in a public Primary School in SC that had over 220 children in it. Black students made up 80% of the student population. There were 5 black students who had a two parent home. Ask anyone who works in the public sector, absentee fathers is a rampant problem in the black community.
11 posted on 06/19/2023 1:53:51 PM PDT by MissEdie (Be the Light in Someone's Darkness.)
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To: MissEdie

That is the result of LBJ’s ‘Great Society’ legislation of the 1960’s.....................And it is intentional, not a side effect.................


12 posted on 06/20/2023 5:08:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Black dads? What’s that?


13 posted on 06/20/2023 5:13:55 AM PDT by Mashood
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