This is how
evil liberalism is... I think all sane and rational people (that eliminates liberals of course) can agree that this is the final nail in the false liberal narrative about race. Liberals have managed to convinced a portion of the African-American community that Republican's are the "boogeyman" while keeping them firmly planted on the government plantation. This article is from an African-American (so good luck trying to use the race card on this one liberals) and the statistics are 100% accurate and can be independently verified.
The cities where black academic achievement is the lowest are the very cities where Democrats have been in charge for decades.
Racial discrimination is seen as the cause of many problems of black Americans. No one argues that racial discrimination does not exist or does not have effects. The relevant question, as far as policy and resource allocation are concerned, is: How much of what we see is caused by current racial discrimination?
From the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, black youth unemployment was slightly less than or equal to white youth unemployment.
Today, black youth unemployment is at least double that of white youth unemployment. Would anyone try to explain the difference with the argument that there was less racial discrimination during the ’40s and ’50s than today?
Today’s black illegitimacy rate is about 73%. When I was a youngster, during the 1940s, illegitimacy was around 15%. In the same period, about 80% of black children were born inside marriage. In fact, historian Herbert Gutman, in an article titled “Persistent Myths about the Afro-American Family” in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Autumn 1975), reported the percentage of black two-parent families, depending on the city, ranged from 75% to 90%.
Today, only a little over 30% of black children are raised in two-parent households.
What Can Racial Discrimination Explain?