How The Liberal Welfare State Destroyed Black AmericaJust the act of government assistance? Or Do you think the fact that so many were poor enough to need it was a factor?Welfare.That's a good point. Instead of just saying that they did it to themselves, why don't we look a little closer? Since the 1930s, what factors do you think led to the degration of the black family?Of course this is the place for that conversation. It is called context and all balanced conversations have it.If we start discussing the good I'm happy to make many acknowledgements but that isn't this conversation. You seem to be either denying or dismissing "the bad" as minor isolated incidents that are non factors. It's rather pretentious of you. You bring up 300 million Americans but really where the impact of this problem comes from is our youth. My girl works in the school system and spent many years working with inner city youth. There is a tremendous cultural problem in the black community and I recognize the problems that exist with entitled attitudes and people milking the welfare system to live off the government. I agree with you that this attitude is unhealthy. On the flip side there is an equally significant problem with racial division and discrimination. Not so much in our laws and corporate work place but in the culture of our society. There is a reality from our past that has put the black community in a hole, which makes their assention to success more difficult than for most white people. They just have more barriers to overcome. I think if you were being honest with yourself you could acknowledge thisI'm not arguing racism doesn't exist. I am arguing it is not as bad as you think. You seem to be focusing on the bad and ignoring the good. The isolated incidents that you focus on are exactly that... isolated. There are more than 300 million people who live in this country. However many racist events you think there are on a daily basis, you need to subtract that number from 300 million to see how many racist events there aren't on a daily basis. And lastly, racism is not limited to one ethnicity. In fact, what ever percentage of racism that you believe applies to whites, would most likely apply to all races.
Again I am not disputing the challenges of the black community. Prior to the 1930's the percentage of black families which had two parents in the household exceeded that of whites. That was destroyed by the 1960's. No one forced blacks to destroy their nuclear family. The black community put itself in that hole. What are you going to do about it? Legislate that they must have two parents?