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12/24/2008: "Black fathers must not flee the ball and chain"

"I have no more excuses" is what I've been hearing at holiday parties from people who believed the system was designed to prevent black progress. The discussion has gone from talk of race to talk about ourselves and our families. When the president is black, it means so much more than a color; it means a new national consciousness. And I wonder whether attitudes about marriage will change among black couples. As the founder of Marry Your Baby Daddy Day, an annual event where 10 unwed couples who already have children together are chosen to walk down the aisle, I've heard a lot of excuses about marriage.

[ Yes indeed "no more excuses", so will African Americans ever return to the family values they had in the "Jim Crow" era when their rates of marriage were high? It's as if black men associate marriage with slavery or something! ]

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