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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, saying that the number of black fathers at the dojo is "idealized" isn't racist.

The "missing" black man[b] isn't b/c black men aren't involved in their families[/b].  It's a disturbing trend for decades in urban crime and disproportionate jail sentences and draft/military recruitment practices.

Black men were about 9-11% of the population in the US during the 1970s--yet they made up 12.6% of the soldiers serving in Vietnam:  http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stevens/africanamer.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/upshot/missing-black-men.html?_r=0

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It is extremely ignorant to think that black fathers aren't present and that the scene with the black dads is idealized. Is your life completely void of black men at work, at your children's schools, socially, etc? Are you saying that Jack isn't the idealized white dad or all white fathers just like Jack? It's so easy for you to get articles and post them, but do you spend anytime in the black community, at their schools, at their churches, etc. But instead of considering or just using common sense to realize that black fathers are  involved with their children, you'd rather hang on to stereotypes. I know plenty of dads like the ones in the dojo and like Randall. If you don't personally know any it doesn't mean they don't exist.[/quote]

No, that's exactly the opposite of what I'm saying.  I'm with the poster who cited the CDC studies about the uninvolved black father as a myth.

What I'm say is that the old adage that black men "are dead or in jail," is a phenomenon is based on racism and classism that actually extends long b/f the 1970s.

From the 1960s-70s, black men were a minority of the population, but were drafted in disproportionate numbers to serve in Vietnam.  Not only do they have a high number of casualties, they return with post war traumas and drug addictions:
http://www.smithandhattery.com/black-men-vietnam-drugs-prison/
It's pretty common knowledge that black men receive stiffer sentences for the same drug offenses as whites.

But even for those on the home front, the situation is pretty bleak.  Many people have heard of Freedom Summer.  Many people have heard of the infamous murder of the CORE volunteers Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman.  Let's face it, if Chaney hadn't been killed with two white men, we'd never had heard of him either.  Many people learned of this tragedy through the popular movie, Mississippi Burning.  What they didn't cover in the movie--or anywhere else that [b]5 UNIDENTIFIED[/b] black men were pulled from the river when searching for S, C, & G.:  http://onevotesncc.org/stories/story-sncc/

Blood & the Root talks about the racial cleansing of one town at the turn of the century:
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/15/494063372/the-racial-cleansing-that-drove-1-100-black-residents-out-of-forsyth-county-ga
This is just one, documented example of how vigilante justice is carried out.

Idealized is to "represent as perfect or better than in reality."  So yeah, the dojo scene for a show that is supposed to be set in Pittsburgh, a city known for it's racial tensions/disparities:  
https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=33832
http://www.marintheatre.org/productions/fences/fences-pittsburgh-1957

is IDEALIZED.[/quote]

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