Guess again, lizard-skin!
I'm leaving that in, even though it's content-free fluff, because unlike a lot of insults it's kind of amusing. Not bad.
Today, more than 70% of black children are born to single women.
Right, I'm not disputing the statistic, just what it means, and also your assumptions about the cause. Regarding the first:
A child may be "born out of wedlock" or "born to a single women" if a) Dad knocked up Mom and split; b) Mom and Dad have a relationship that for whatever reason they choose not to formalize with legal marriage; or c) Mom and Dad had Junior before they were married but are married now. If we see an increase in "out of wedlock births," does that mean more of a), b), or c) is happening? The only problem is if it represents more of a).
I would also point out that out-of-wedlock births are on the rise worldwide, so the increase in the black community can't be treated as an isolated instance.
And there's also this:
The math on Black out of wedlock births - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Entertainment - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates said:
In other words, no one disputes that 70 percent of black babies are born out of wedlock--or maybe they do, I never have. What we dispute are the reasons why. One notion that's gained quite a bit of currency is that over the last 40 years, black mothers have, for whatever reason, decided that they'd much rather be single mothers. But the facts don't back this up. As the data shows unmarried black women are having less, not more, kids then they were having 40 years ago. Furthermore, the number of unmarried black women having kids is declining, while the number of unmarried women--overall--having babies is increasing.
More to the point, the assertion that welfare is responsible for the increase in out-of-wedlock births is one with no data to support it.
2. A key to why poverty ceased to decline almost as soon as the War on Poverty began,
This is a statement contrary to fact, thus we need no "key" to understand it -- it's just wrong.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/rural_development_chap8.pdf
Rates of poverty fell throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and the Social Security Act of 1965 were the primary initiatives of the War on Poverty. During the decade after they were introduced, poverty rates fell to their lowest level in history: 11.1% in 1973 compared to 17.3% when the measures were introduced. A decade after is not "almost as soon as."
Poverty rates began rising again in the mid 1970s, clearly as a result of the worsening economy, though, not because of welfare.
None of the remaining points you make are any better. All of them depend either on assertion of facts which are wrong, or on dubious comparisons between things that are not in fact comparable, or on assumptions of causation when no evidence of causation exists.
