# Is the lack of black fathers the true reason for racial disparity? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 15, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-lack-of-black-fathers-the-true-reason-for-racial-disparity/923010 "2020-10-15T13:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 147
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-lack-of-black-fathers-the-true-reason-for-racial-disparity/923010/147 "2020-10-24T17:47:34Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > It obviously didn’t work on you, you practically jumped down my throat when I tried to make a joke about you supporting a South African athlete in the Olympics. I’m quite keyed to people ignorantly projecting their own nationalism onto me - people assume just because I do defend South Africa when it’s being maligned with factually incorrect smears (you could search for [previous](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-africa-going-the-way-of-zimbabwe/801071/17) threads on White genocide in South Africa, for example), that I’m nationalistic. I’m not in the slightest - I think nation-states are an absurd idea. I just hate bullshit. > [@DemonTree](#): > > But really that’s a shame. I wonder if there is any way to build a nation without that unpleasant side effect? Sure - you could base your nationalism on _being_ a nation of immigrants. That used to be part of the American Dream _spiel_. Of course, it fell apart rapidly when the immigrants were no longer mainly White. But other places _could_ do it without that aspect. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-lack-of-black-fathers-the-true-reason-for-racial-disparity/923010)._