Smollet's parents were divorced, it used to be common for the dad to be away for significant amounts of time. So long as the marriage remained, the home life of the children was good and stable.

Yup, and Colin was adopted and raised by two loving parents.

Fatherless blacks aren't doing anyone any favors, but fixing that issue won't suddenly make them social peers to whites. Any objective analysis will tell you this, but we all must labor under this lie that it's the culture, there's no such thing as race, etc.