I hesitate to say it, but I'm on Team Switzer on this, and with all due respect, you two are full of ****. There's nothing wrong with criticizing the black community about absentee fathers. It's the defining challenge of their community and has been for the last 60 years, and nothing has been a greater cause of black social, economic, and cultural problems.
However, if Walker has been making babies out of wedlock, he is in no position to launch that criticism. It isn't because he's wrong. It's because he doesn't have the credibility. And so what if he hasn't been derelict in his child support obligations? Failing to pay child support is bad, but it's not the root of the problem or even close to it. If failure to pay child support was the big problem in the black community, then kids raised by single moms getting a government check would be just as well off as kids with dads in the home, which obviously isn't true.
The real problem is the dad not living with the children and raising them day in and day out. That is the real work of being a father, and it's what makes the difference between being a good father and a crappy father. That's why a poor man can be a great father and a rich man can be a terrible one (even if he pays his child support and spends a lot of money on his kids). The absent father is the root of the problem in the black community, and it sounds like Walker was an absent father himself. Shame on him for it, and his criticisms, though true, ring hollow because of his hypocrisy.
