Dr. Cosby is late
If you don't want to wait for famous folks to come clean, read the comments here.
Hey, credit where due.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the conservative folks that leaped all over that 70% number to recant. And the fact that Dr. Cosby HAS cleaned it up shows the separation between him yelling at us and them yelling at us. It's not a race thing as much as an honor thing—honoring his own integrity as well as those he's talking about.
COSBY ON TEEN PREGNANCY: 'Fatherhood' author clarifies stats on African American girls getting knocked up.
(Jul. 13, 2004) Comedian Bill Cosby wants to rectify a few of the data he cited in recent rants about the crisis of African American teen pregnancy.
He had previously said that 70% of all teen pregnancies are to African American girls. According to 1997 stats, African Americans make up about 27% of teen moms.
But considering that African Americans make up a smaller percentage of the US population, the rate of black teenage pregnancy is still through the roof.
Zeroing in on African-American teens aged 15-19, the pregnancy rate is almost double that of the white population. However, the data also points out that African Americans had the largest decline since 1991 of birth rates for this same group, falling 42% compared to the previous data. Cosby, however, doesn’t feel the decline translates to optimism.
