# Is the lack of black fathers the true reason for racial disparity?

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-lack-of-black-fathers-the-true-reason-for-racial-disparity/923010/71 "2020-10-22T07:21:16Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> So, things may be different in the village of McGillycuddy or wherever you live, but the stats say different.

Which stats say different? I don’t recognise your characterisation of the UK as a particularly racist place, I pretty much never hear racist attitudes experessed in public or private.  
The article you linked to didn’t show any comparison country to country so other than anecdote I don’t know on what basis you place the USA and UK as more racist than South Africa. Where do you think _any_ those countries sit on the world stage?  
This [study](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00012/full) suggests this isn’t the case in at least one key metric and South Africa appears to be much worse than either the USA or the UK.

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