According to this very typical link. You were speaking by "volume stats" like RBI rather than by "rate stats" like slugging percentage?
So if your point is, "sons with no dads is a universal problem," then of course I agree 1000%.
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Let's not pretend that we don't understand, though. You're aware of the Charles Barkley quip that "if you're not an idiot or a thug, you're not black enough"; Seattle had the whole "Is he black enough?" conversation last year about Russell Wilson.
Hard to imagine you missed that. The RW3 theme was --- > deference to authority as "selling out" if you are black. It's not possible to deny this cultural theme with a straight face.
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In many of those inner-city schools, buckling down to good grades, talking to the teacher with respect, will get kids beat up on a daily basis. If you're a child in that situation, and your FRIENDS regard you a sellout for trying to get a college education and not get a girl pregnant, what SPECIFICALLY do you do? Call for more federal funding so your best friend won't sneer at you?
Russ, DaddyO, and I suggest changing the message on the TV screen, for starters. Hint: the new message doesn't begin with pointedly refusing to salute the flag -- and all of society's authority figures, by extension -- while the American President (!) nods and responds by saying "Maybe people will start to realize he has a point" in his rejection of civil cooperation and goodwill.
Teddy Roosevelt would be awfully proud, wouldn't he? :- ) Keep your hands in your pockets, there, son. Bully good show.
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We have a couple of unwed white mothers in my church. It's not a rare thing. Obviously, these mothers loved, supported, and accepted.
In theory, we would have to start by agreeing that [sons with no dads] is NOT our IDEAL. Not much chance of agreeing on that. Long ago we decided it's much more important to affirm those not conforming to the ideal, than to work towards the ideal.