The Politics of Black Mothers

There's always this idea that african-americans are fundamentally different. White people get really excited as white people generalizing about our culture what we seem to really love is if there's some sort of some sort of anecdotal or pretty unsubstantiated data which points to a problem in communities of color. We start rubbing our hands together and say oh yes if we can prosecute more people and solve a problem by putting people in prison like let's do that one right this crackdown is going to fix it all the time. It fits the same pattern as the satanic panic where you don't need all that much evidence to believe that afAfrican-american mothers are bad.