Obama did not take his Father’s Day message to Trinity United Church of Christ, the church from which he resigned in May after a series of disputes over controversial remarks by the church’s former pastor, the Rev. His themes have been also been sounded by the comedian Bill Cosby, who has stirred debate among black Americans by bluntly speaking about an epidemic of fatherless African-American families while suggesting that some blacks use racism as a crutch to explain lack of economic progress. “You’re supposed to graduate from eighth grade.” “Don’t get carried away with that eighth-grade graduation,” he said, bringing many members of the congregation to their feet, applauding. Obama noted that “more than half of all black children live in single-parent households,” a number that he said had doubled since his own childhood. Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, directly addressed one of the most sensitive topics in the African-American community: whether absent fathers bore responsibility for some of the intractable problems afflicting black Americans. The speech was striking for its setting, and in how Mr. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.” “They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men.
Obama said, to a chorus of approving murmurs from the audience. “Too many fathers are M.I.A, too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too many lives and too many homes,” Mr. CHICAGO Addressing a packed congregation at one of the city’s largest black churches, Senator Barack Obama on Sunday invoked his own absent father to deliver a sharp message to African-American men, saying, “We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception.”
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