What is the controversy surrounding #takeaknee

[John V]

I love it that he lays the blame for black violence on single parent families, and yet totally fails to figure out that the reasons black people have so many single parent families is because of their oppression; do you know that, back in slavery days, when two slaves married, the vows changed the line "till death do you part" to " till death or distance do you part"? Because there remained the understanding that Massa could legally separate any slave family for any reason. And this was the standard state of affairs until 1865. So please tell us that it's somehow not a result of racism.

If black single-parent families had been high ever since slavery, you'd have a point. But, that's not at all the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-Am..._structure

Data from U.S. Census reports reveal that between 1880 and 1960, married households consisting of two-parent homes were the most widespread form of African American family structures.[26] Although the most popular, married households decreased over this time period. Single-parent homes, on the other hand, remained relatively stable until 1960 when they rose dramatically.[26] A study of 1880 family structures in Philadelphia showed that three-fourths of black families were nuclear families, composed of two parents and children.[27]

In New York City in 1925, 85% of kin-related black households had two parents.[27] When Moynihan warned in his 1965 report on the coming destruction of the black family, however, the out-of-wedlock birthrate had increased to 25% among blacks.[25] This figure continued to rise over time and in 1991, 68% of black children were born outside of marriage.[28] U.S. Census data from 2010 reveal that more African American families consisted of single-parent mothers than married homes with both parents.[29] Most recently, in 2011 it was reported that 72% of black babies were born to unwed mothers.[24]

Are you saying that this slave metality somehow skipped a few generations, only to come back in the 1960s and then explode? Seems pretty far-fetched.