. >> more than 72% of children in the african-american community are born out of wedlock. that means absent fathers. >> okay. 72%. that number, i could not believe it. i hardly believe -p 2% of all the things al says, right. that number seems staggering to me. charles, what is your impression of the number? does that feel right to you. >> no, the number is correct. what we don't get when we hear the number is the context around the number. which is married black women use to have more children then even white women. their rate of child birth has dropped tremendously. that leaves only the unmarried black women having more of the children right. that's part of the context. >> so part is the way the census is taken. >> no, it's not the census. it's the cultural shift on black women having children. second, the big ballooning in that part coincides with the ballooning in mass incarcerations and war on drugs. we are sucking massive numbers of african-american members out of the community that are marriage age that would of been doing something productive with their lives, afric

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learning that the leader elijah mohammed had committed adult reand fathered multiple children out of wedlockhe converted to sunni islam and made the pilgrimage to mecca and founded his own religious group the organizations of afro american unity and became more open to a har moneyous solution to america's race problem. his efforts were cut short on february 21st, 1965, he was gunned down while delivering a speech in harlem's ottoman ballroom. .3 members of the nation of islam were convicted of the assassination of malcolm x. >> jesse jackson is one of the few prominent civil rights leaders who is still active in urban communities today. david shuster talked to him about malcolm x's inflew he knew before and after his death. >> he has lived beyond his death. malcolm was a man who was de defiant, rejected with negotiable dignity, capacity to organize people. he brought mohammed ali into the nation of islam, for example. he really brought mr. farrakahn in to the nation of islam. the capacity to organize made him very different. >> has history been unfair to him? because it seems as if perhaps t

more people have three babies with three baby daddies out of wedlock. >> 60% to 17%. >> that's right.that's why the kids can't compete in the marketplace. that's why. it's nothing to do with white privilege or any of that. >> no, i do think that the privilege and lack of opportunity, education. >> you can't have opportunity if you don't have education dre? >> if al sharpton speaks out about it or jesse jackson speaks out about it. >> blank him. >> you asked why the media doesn't cover this. one, they would have to expose a lot of policies that have kept the black community down so they don't do it. also there is a fear if they delve into these issues they will be called racist. some don't want to talk about this out of fear. they report what's easier because they are lazy and they don't want to do the tough reporting and expose the truth. let me tell you something leslie is right. it is a problem disproportionately in the black community and affecting the white community as well. it demeans dads which are pretty darn important in this country and the world. single motherhood they glor

are born into fatherless homes. 40% of children are born out of wedlock.s is an enormous trend, similar in europe. a woman in belgium every productive age has a 4% likelihood of getting married and having a baby. >> i think are our traditional social ways of taking care of kids and your parents. as those things evaporate, we're not yet officially replacing them with state-based solutions. >> for women, working women, if you don't have child care it is convenient and not too expensive, it becomes cost prohibitive for you to work. >> certainly true. >> do you believe the debate is mostly a debate of people making $400 million -- $400,000, one lane dollars a year. >> i think this is a debate about people who can't, who are working for less money than they have to pay out for childcare. >> we got lisa fired up. >> this is a very important topic for me. >> this brings us up to our twitter question of the day -- he's out there. there's a guy out there whose making a name for himself in a sport where your name and maybe a number are what define you. somewhere in

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i saw his test scores and out of wedlock rates and fighter pilots in world war ii. i won't hear it.nd if you take away their unearned moral superiority all they have evidence policies and that is murder and failure. it's over. so, let me close with this, we have to get in this fight, we have to make movies. we have to give people something they can connect to. young people have to see pictures and movies where the good guy has our values. it's just a good guy who has our values. it's got to be galling for the left. matt damon makes his living by shooting guns at people. has got to be annoying for them. matt damon is a leftist who says things like this, i'm a movie star. i'm very rich. i think we should raise taxes on the american people. i'm going to get hit worse of everybody. wow, matt, you are an incredibly spiritually magnificent noble man. however you unfortunately match, i work in show business as welt. let me just point out, first of all if you go home with a $7 million paycheck instead of nine that's the kind of sacrifice i could find a way to live with. that's number one. n

we have more broken families, out of wedlock birth incarceration, crime.hat these programs were supposed to fix have gotten worse. so what do people do about that? intelligent people would look at that and they would say we need to change course. people who -- [ applause ] people who perhaps failed to utilize their intellect all capability would look at that and say we need to do it more. we didn't do enough and you know, that's the difference, but we need to move in a very different direction. we need to understand what true compassion is in order to reach out to individuals who think that maybe being dependent is reasonable as long as they feel safe and it isn't. it really is not compassionate to pat people on the head and say there, there you poor little thing. i'm going to take care of all your needs your healthcare and your food and your housing. don't you worry about anything because there are all those bad people who are causing your problem, and i'm going to fix it. that's not compassion. that's the opposite of compassion. that is making people dep

we had more broken families out of wedlock.ing that these programs were supposed to fix has gotten worse. what do people do? people with look at this and say, we need to change course. that people who perhaps failed to utilize their intellectual capabilities with look at that and say, we need to do it more. we did not do enough. that is the difference. we need to move in a different direction and understand true compassion in order to reach out to individuals who think that maybe being dependent is it isn't. it is not compassionate to pat people on the head and say, i'm going to take care of all your needs, your health care, and your food and your housing. don't worry about anything. i'm going to fix it. that's not compassion. that is the opposite of compassion. that is making people compassion. real compassion is using our intellect to find ways to allow those people to climb out of dependency and realize the american dream. that is what we need to be thinking about. it's about investing in our fellow human beings, just like t

i saw his test scores and out of wedlock rates and fighter pilots in world war ii. i won't hear it. and if you take away their unearned moral superiority all they have evidence policies and that is murder and failure. it's over. so, let me close with this, we have to get in this fight, we have to make movies. we have to give people something they can connect to. young people have to see pictures and movies where the good guy has our values. it's just a good guy who has our values. it's got to be galling for the left. matt damon makes his living by shooting guns at people. has got to be annoying for them. matt damon is a leftist who says things like this, i'm a movie star. i'm very rich. i think we should raise taxes on the american people. i'm going to get hit worse of everybody. wow, matt, you are an incredibly spiritually magnificent noble man. however you unfortunately match, i work in show business as welt. let me just point out, first of all if you go home with a $7 million paycheck instead of nine that's the kind of sacrifice i could find a way to live with. that's number one.