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The Admiral posted...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jul/29/don-lemon/cnns-don-lemon-says-more-72-percent-african-americ/

That says "out of wedlock" births. That doesn't say that they "don't have fathers" as you stated. Just because you're not married doesn't mean you don't take care of your kids: in fact, your own link states that.

Lemon did overreach somewhat when he went on to say that the 72 percent "out of wedlock" figure "means absent fathers." The 72 percent figure refers to children who are born to women who are not married; it would, however, include unmarried couples in which the father is present.

We should note that this data doesn’t suggest that 67 percent of African-American children have no contact with their father (or a father figure), but rather that their father does not live in the same household with them.

I'm not disagreeing that children without fathers is a big deal in the black community, but as usual you're taking a statistic and trying to make it say way more than it actually says.
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