> Negro Illegitimacy Rate Hits 80%%
> A Dubious Milestone
> By BOB HERBERT
>
> Published: June 21, 2008
>
> Some years ago, I wrote about a teenager named Kendra Newkirk, who was
> raised by her mom and had only seen her dad once in her life. Because of
> an emergency, Kendra and her mom had to meet the father at a
> particularly busy public location in Brooklyn.
>
> Kendra had no idea what he looked like. "It was hard," she told me. "He
> could have been any one of those men walking on the street. I kept
> asking my mother: 'Is that him? Is that him?' "
>
> I've been thinking about Kendra ever since Barack Obama spoke on
> Father's Day about the tragic flight of so many American fathers,
> especially black fathers, from their children's lives.
> ...

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