Well, libs now are not the libs of the past.
July31, 1966, NYT archives:
Moynihan of the Moynihan Report
" The degree of fame that Moynihan has attained recently stems mainly from the fact that he is the author of a much-discussed Government paper entitled "The Negro Family: The Case For National Action," now commonly referred to as the Moynihan Report, in which he urged that the Federal Government adopt a national policy for the reconstruction of the Negro family, arguing that the real cause of the American Negro's troubles is not so much segregation, or a lack of voting power, but the circumstance that the structure of the Negro family is highly" unstable and in many urban centers. . .approaching complete breakdown." This is so, stated Moynihan, because of the increasingly matriarchal character of American Negro society, a society in which a husband is absent from nearly 2 million of the nation's 5 million Negro families and in which, too, some 25 per cent of all births are illegitimate. Moreover, Moynihan pointed out, children, especially boys, who grow up in fatherless homes tend not to adjust to this country's essentially patriarchal society, particularly when their problems are complicated by poverty and racial prejudice.
"From the wild Irish slums of the19th-century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles," wrote Moynihan a few months ago, enlarging on his report for the Jesuit magazine, America, "there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows large numbers of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future--that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, disorder. . .are not only to be expected, they are very near to inevitable. And they are richly deserved."
Though the Moynihan Report, which was issued by the Department of Labor in the late winter of 1965, was ostensibly confidential, labeled "For Official Use Only," its contents became widely known in the summer of 1965 and began immediately to stir enormous controversy in civil-rights circles, particularly when it became apparent that President Johnson planned to use the report as the philosophic basis for a series of new Great Society programs designed "to help the American Negro move beyond opportunity to achievement."
Critics of the Moynihan Report--who included a number of leading Negro and white civil-rights leaders, as well as several prominent figures in American Protestantism and such liberal magazines as The Nation and The Christian Century--accused Moynihan of using simplistic logic. ..inadequate empirical evidence. . .and erroneous premises."Furthermore, and most informed observers fell that this was actually the heart of the matter, many claimed that Moynihan, in speaking openly about problems like Negro illegitimacy, was attacking the morality of the American Negro, and was, in fact, something of a racist."
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Understandably enough, Moynihan has found all of this fairly discouraging, but he nonetheless remains convinced that his diagnosis of the Negro problem is correct, and, going now beyond his report, which merely stated the problems without offering solutions to them, he is today busily presenting a variety of solutions to the Negro's troubles, most of which, when he has outlined them in speeches and magazine articles, have got him in even hotter water with the leaders of the civil-rights movement.
Moynihan, for instance, strongly supports school integration, but at the same time he has heretically declared that de facto school integration is still many years away, especially in the Northern urban ghettos, like Harlem. Therefore, Moynihan proposes, less energy should be spent trying to create artificial integration, through busing and other methods, and more energy should be spent making the segregated ghetto schools better than they are.
"The millions coming from Federal aid-to-education programs and other sources should mainly be going into upgrading the academic level of the segregated schools," Moynihan has observed. "A ghetto school like, say, P.S. 175 in Harlem, shouldn't be one of New York's worst schools; it should be one of its very best. I am not saying, however, that this would be simple to accomplish."
To upgrade the ghetto school, Moynihan has specifically suggested that Negro men be hired to replace white and Negro women as teachers in these schools. "We should be paying qualified Negro males$10,000 a year to teach in the ghetto schools, particularly to teach kindergarten and the first and second grades, for it is at this time when young Negro boys, many of whom have no father at home, most need a strong male figure in their lives," he noted recently.
Butin offering ideas like this, Moynihan has more and more incurred the wrath of much of the liberal community, for whom integration comes far ahead of abstractions like family stability. To prove to his critics, however, that family stability is of more immediate importance than integration, Moynihan has cited the cases of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Japanese immigrants who came to this country in the late 19th century, hopelessly poor, unskilled and uneducated, whose descendants have nonetheless achieved astonishing success in spite of racial prejudice--and the fact that they have lived and, to a large degree, continue to live in ghettos.
Quoting Census Bureau college enrollment statistics, which sociologists consider a particularly important index of social and economic status, Moynihan has shown that some 44.1 per cent of all college-age Chinese-Americans and Japanese-Americans are today in college as against 21.4 per cent of all college-age whites and only 8.4 per cent of college-age Negroes. Similarly, according to a study made by the B'nai B'rith, nearly 80 per cent of all college-age Jews are enrolled in college. And what, asks Moynihan, do the Chinese, the Japanese and the Jews have in common? Answer: "A singularly stable, cohesive and enlightened family life."
It is far worse now, with single parent families now at what, 70%-80% of black homes and getting worse?
Yeah, ******* 1966 we knew what hte problem was, and instead of addressing that, we have been playing retarded games.