Based on your political perspective, this post was a pretty thoughtful response to the OP.
Let me give a general answer....
...if one believes in the ability of our black brothers and sisters, it seems logical to subscribe to the view of Fredrick Douglass, who said the following in April, 1865. His speech was called “What the Black Man Wants."
"Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, "What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us!
Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm-eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall!
I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!
If you see him on his way to school, let him alone, don't disturb him! If you see him going to the dinner table at a hotel, let him go! If you see him going to the ballot- box, let him alone, don't disturb him! [Applause.] If you see him going into a work-shop, just let him alone,--your interference is doing him a positive injury.”
Does it seem to you that Liberal programs have followed that prescription?
yes, but years of oppression by society and race hating ruined what Douglas stated.
While the period you refer to certainly included what you state, Douglass spoke in 1865.
The OP covers a period beyond that, during which blacks competed successfully sans government programs.
Then came the 1960's and the "War on Poverty."
I'll bet you would agree that the 'War' did not produce the results that were promised.
NY Democrat Senator, the brilliant Daniel Patrick Moynihan, called for the same things as Douglass, calling it 'benign neglect' of blacks.
I suggest that Liberal politicians also realize the truth of the Douglass-Moynihan ideas, but have an ulterior agenda, one that is not based on benefiting blacks.
Ya' think?
I suggest that you stop pointing fingers and realize that you are attempting to blame democrats for the reason why many blacks are not a social success.
First of all, other races have laggers or failures.
Secondly, no republican or conservative has removed welfare while in office and when they had a monopoly of the government branches.
Thirdly, the blacks have the opprotunity to do something but they lack the desire, if they had not welfare they would still not work because many are unemployable.
I have degrees and experience and it is still difficult to get hired in the field I want to work in.
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