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Candie wrote: »

Ponytails aren't exactly rocket science, even if you never did one before you'd have to be seriously deficient not to figure out the procedure in ten seconds or less. I'd have a higher opinion of men generally.

It's really depressing on a few levels - that a guy brushing his kids hair is in any way remarkable, that the kids skin colour is in any way remarkable, the nastily specific inference that black fathers who are involved with their kids are outliers, and the unremarkable but still depressing presence of racist morons on the internet.

I feel for this guy insofar as so many people seem to view the photo through the color lens, instead of just seeing a dad with his kids. That's got to get to him and his family.

While I agree with ideals behind this post, in relation to the inter-racial issue that perception may not simply be due to blind racism.

This is probably not a particularly popular thing to point out but.

The USA has a very high divorce rate compared to here, within the general population something like 40-50%.
A Black male - White female marriage is 60% more likely to end in divorce than a same race marriage.

The natural retort to this is that this is due to external social pressures due to race and possible differences in background between the two partners.
However these pressures would also presumably act upon White Male - Black Female marriages to an equal extent and would be similarly reflected in a higher divorce rate, this is not the case at all though with these unions having a divorce rate 44% less than the standard.

An alternative explanation would be that socio-economic pressures cause the higher rate of White Female - Black Male divorce in that (though its changing and hopefully will change more) the man is the default breadwinner, thus the disadvantaged position of African Americans in the USA would have a bigger impact on this type of inter race marriage than White M - Black F.

However similar pressures would presumably also act upon Hispanic White/White unions due to the similarly disadvantaged socio-economic position hispanics hold in the USA, this is not reflected in divorce statistics however.

So while it may be a negative assumption that a Black father may not be involved in his mixed race kids lives, its not one that can be dismissed as simply as backwards racism.

emmabrighton wrote: »

Cos he is too busy running his Hair Dressing Empire al a Vidal Sassoon???

Ooh you're sooo 90's dear


Ah no, plenty of men can do sailors knots (or hair braids, if you must ), I'll be honest, I didn't bother reading the article past the first line. This whole thing of ordinary ****e going viral does my tits in tbh.