“I respect what you’re protesting for. But will you respect others who don’t support that same protest?” -Marcellus Wiley
Tré Goins-Phillips : Jul 6, 2020 Faithwire.com
[Faithwire.com] It took sports commentator Marcellus Wiley, who is black, only a few minutes to Google the Black Lives Matter movement and find major problems with the organization. (Image: via Fox Sports /Faithwire)
In a three-minute address on his Fox Sports show “Speak for Yourself” earlier this week, the anchor explained the importance of the nuclear family structure in which he grew up as well as the family he is building now within his own marriage.
“Being a father and a husband—that’s my mission in life right now,” said Wiley. “How do I reconcile that … with this [Black Lives Matter] mission statement that says, ‘We dismantle the patriarchal practice. We disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement.'”
A graduate of Columbia University, Wiley said he knew how critical the family structure was long before he studied the statistics that bore out his lived experience.
“Children from single-parent homes versus two-parent homes—the children from single-parent homes (this was in 1995, I was reading this): five times more likely to commit suicide, six times more likely to be in poverty, nine times more likely to drop out of high school, 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances, 14 times more likely to commit rape, 20 times more likely to end up in prison, and 32 times more likely to run away from home”…
Click here to continue reading and watch the video of Wiley’s address.