Where was daddy?
 
Chapter Two
 
The fool standing in a Baltimore Circuit Court last month had the nerve to cry before he was sentenced.
 
Dwayne Cedric Raysor, 31 years old, was convicted of statutory rape and sentenced to prison for having “consensual” sex with a 12-year-old girl. Raysor had tears in his eyes when he told the judge he didn’t know that was illegal.

Last week readers learned of the deaths of three half-brothers: Michael “Mousey” Dowdy, Kim Nichols and Kevin “KK” Dozier. All were sons of Anne Dozier and all were shot dead in Baltimore before their 20th birthdays.

I suggested then that these three young men died because their fathers didn’t step up and remove them from a very bad situation. The deaths of Mousey, Kim and KK show why young black men need their dads.

Young black women need their dads too. Some of them need their daddies to protect them from guys like Raysor.
 
A source in the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office told me that Raysor and his 12-year-old victim are both black. I wish I could say cases like Raysor and the girl are the exception in Baltimore. But they aren’t.

Baltimore’s health commissioner cited statistics which show that from 1995 to 1999, nearly 30 percent of girls who were 14 or under when they got pregnant had sex with men at least five years older. Syndicated columnist Rich Lowry noted a California study which indicated that the fathers of the babies junior high school girls have are, on average, seven years older than the mothers. Lowry said some estimates of the number of adult fathers of babies of teen moms run as high as 60 percent.
 
That source in the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office didn’t tell me if the 12-year-old girl Raysor robbed of her childhood came from a home with no daddy. I suspect she didn’t. Or that she came from a home with a daddy who wasn’t worth a tinker’s dam.

My daughter turned 12 over 20 years ago. Let me give the scenario of what would have happened if someone like Raysor even thought about having sex with her (You daddies of daughters who are or were once 12 might back me up on this.).

First I would have gotten my two brothers and maybe a couple of my nephews. Heck, I may even may gotten my dad, who was approaching 60 and still alive when my daughter turned 12. I’m sure he would have wanted to have some words with the idiot who was checking his 12-year-old granddaughter.
 
Then this committee would have taken this fool aside and talked to him. We’d have regulated him. Interpret “regulated” any way you like. The bottom line is that would have been the last my daughter heard of from that clown.

I suspect most daddies with daughters would have done the same.

The girls who don’t have their daddies in their lives are vulnerable to predators like Raysor. In 2004, focus groups in Baltimore and eight other cities studied sexual attitudes among black urban teens. They learned girls who get involved with older guys are looking for, among other things, financial support.
 
Isn’t that what daddies are supposed to provide?
 
I’m sure some in black America’s culture of baby mama-ism would find that assessment sexist. I’m sure they would find my contention that black daddies need to form groups of other black men to “regulate” men who prey on black girls equally objectionable. Any black man who gives a grown man who deflowers his 12, 13 or 14-year-old daughter the kneecapping he deserves is going to be more roundly criticized than the sexual predator.

That’s the fallout we get from the pimp-loving, thug-emulating, rump-shaking, hoochie mama, baby mama culture we seem to have embraced. Black men in their 30s who not only have sex with 12-year-old girls, but see nothing wrong with it. Grown men who blubber like babies when judges rightly nail them with rape sentences when these things rarely end up in court.
 
But the Dwayne Cedric Raysors of America needn’t worry. Soon black America’s liberal misleaders will be on one of their patented rants about how statutory rape sentences disproportionately impact black men.