THE UNSPEAKABLE ISSUE - AT 8:34 P.M. ET:  The tragedy of the black family continues, while too many "civil rights" leaders are more concerned with Rush Limbaugh or defending ACORN:

CHICAGO (CBS) —It is a Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common – something you might find disturbing.

All those young ladies are moms or moms-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It's not a school for young mothers, it's a neighborhood school. And all of the pregnancies have happened, despite prevention talk.

If you want to know why, the people closest to the situation say there's no simple explanation.

Oh, no, no.  There's never any "simple" explanation.  But of course there is - a decline in culture, of standards, of family values, of decency.  Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned in 1962, some 47 years ago, that something terrible was happening to the black family.  For his concern he was called a racist.

Question "culture" and the multiculturalists come out of the woodwork.  Question teenage mothers, abandoned by the fathers, and the hardline feminists come out of the other part of the woodwork chanting, "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

And by the way, note the name of the school - named for a fine singer, no doubt, but a man who betrayed his country by accepting the Lenin Prize from the Soviet Union.  When asked by a reporter about Soviet artists who suddenly disappeared, Robeson said that he knew nothing about it. Even the NAACP shunned this man, but his name appears on a school in the part of Chicago where Michelle Obama grew up, Barack Obama lived, and Rev. Wright preached.

Nothing like an "anything goes" approach to naming a school. 

Chicago Public Schools says it does not track the overall number of teen moms in the district. But Robeson Principal Gerald Morrow knows the count at his school in Englewood: 115 young ladies who are either expecting or already have had children.

I love the "young ladies."  I hope they are.  But someone got to them with some very bad ideas.

To put it in perspective, their school pictures would fill roughly six pages of their high school year book.

Maybe if every liberal newspaper in the country would print a picture of all those young moms, local "leaders" would realize the tragedy, and do something about it. 

This is not racial.  The white illegitimacy rate is also increasing.  It is a reflection of a society that has allowed standards to drop to the bottom.

October 16, 2009