On the Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore last night, four black notable African-Americans talked about the skyrocketing rate of black children born out of wedlock, and in one revealing segment, they interviewed people on the streets of Chicago about it.
Watch below:
What’s surprising is that the Chicago residents aren’t surprised. They know just from seeing their friends and neighbors that the out-of-wedlock birth rate is very very high. It’s the show hosts who act shocked, as if they’d never heard of it before.
For the record, here are the rates, from National Review:
Preliminary data indicate that 40.7 percent of all 2012 births were out-of-wedlock, which is appalling, and there are vast differences among racial and ethnic groups. Among non-Hispanic blacks, the figure is highest, at 72.2 percent; for American Indians/Alaska Natives, it’s 66.9 percent; 53.5 percent for Hispanics; 29.4 percent for non-Hispanic whites; and a mere 17.1 percent for Asians/Pacific Islanders.
And, as Larry Wilmore says later on, this is a massive increase from 1965 when black out of wedlock births were just at 24%.