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1950s Black Families Where Twice as Stable as Their White Counterparts: The Insidious Black Culture Heist
In this thought-provoking episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins explore the complex evolution of Black culture in America, examining historical trends, data-driven insights, and controversial perspectives. They discuss the stark changes in marriage rates, family structures, and cultural values within the Black community over the past decades. The conversation delves into the potential influences of music, media, and political ideologies on these shifts.
Key topics include:
* Historical Black family structures and values
* Changes in marriage and birth rates among Black Americans
* The impact of rap music and urban culture on Black identity
* Comparisons between country and rap music themes
* The role of politics and progressive ideologies in shaping modern Black culture
* Challenges faced by conservative Black individuals in dating and social spheres
* The potential for reclaiming traditional Black cultural values
This video aims to spark a nuanced dialogue about the complexities of race, culture, and identity in America.
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Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. Today, we are going to be talking about a very controversial topic that originally we had actually had one of our black friends on to talk about with us, but his recording quality wasn't very good. So we're going to raw dog this.
Two white people talking about black culture. With no protection, this is, this is not going to turn out well,
Speaker: Yo, so I'm raw dogging this chick, right? She goes, yo, I'm on birth control. SO now this is Dylan. He just turned two the other day.
Malcolm Collins: But I'm going to share some grass with you. One you've seen before. So the one you've seen before putting on screen here, this is the one that shows that in the United States, the Black American fertility rate is literally the lowest fertility rate of any ethnic group for all individuals in that group with over a 30 percent income.
I mean, the top 70 percent of black earners, if you compare [00:01:00] them with the top 70 percent of earners from any other ethnic group, it is the absolute lowest and by a significant margin. Now somebody could be like, Oh, what about that one little area where the purple line is below the red line? Right? And it's like, well,
that purple line is native born, non Hispanic, other, Asian, multi, which I don't really think of an ethnic group. It's just sort of, it turns out when people are multi ethnic, they have incredibly, incredibly low fertility rates. But that's not the surprising thing! I mean, that is surprising to me, at least.
Yeah, hello. But! It gets worse. So I'm going to quote here in 2012, the U. S. Census Bureau found that African Americans age 35 and older were more likely to be married than white Americans from 1980 until sometime around the 1960s.
Not only did they swap places in the sixties, but in the 1980s, the number of never married African Americans began a staggering climb from about 10 [00:02:00] percent to more than 25 percent by 2010. And by the way, it's gotten way above that in 2020. It's at 48 percent in 2008, it was, it was 44%. Like
Simone Collins: At first it seems shocking, and then you think, wait a second, no, like when you think about older black communities.
The marriage rate is high, like, these are very traditional nuclear families. It's not
Malcolm Collins: just that. In the 1940s, they did a study. Black illegitimacy rates were only 19%, which was lower than the white rates during that period. That also
Simone Collins: makes sense. I just, when you think of 70 percent of
Malcolm Collins: black families have kids outside of wedlock.
Simone Collins: Okay, so we went from less, and now it's 70%.
Malcolm Collins:
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