On Sept 5, 2024, a year before his death , Charlie Kirk was debating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We have a problem in Black America,” he argued. “The biggest problem is not racism, it’s a lack of dads. If dads are around, kids flourish.” He pointed to Barack Obama, a product of single motherhood , who in 2008 said, “Too many fathers are missing…More than half of all Black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled. The foundations of our community are weaker because of it.” A student in Kirk’s debate audience countered by pointing out systemic racism and noting the way mass incarceration “take[s] away Black people from their families,” creating so-called “broken homes.” But Kirk doubled down. “There’s a cultural expectation that is different in Bl

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