Daniel Henninger puts the relationship between Barack Obama and Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick in a generational context. Henninger also discusses how Bill Cosby and Oprah Winfrey fit into the changing culture of black America.
It reminded me of a discussion I heard this past weekend on the now-familiar questioning of the breakdown of families in the black community and the “my baby daddy” problem. The speaker noted that two centuries of slavery (and, I would add, a century of Jim Crow laws) could not destroy the black family, but fifty years into the civil rights era too many young men feel no need to be responsible for their children. And it’s not just here.
