Blacks have the highest crime rate in the country. Highest single mother highest out of wedlock births even you can look that up. Alsogest
Blacks have the highest crime rate, single mothers, out of wedlock births, largest group on welfare, all caused by the democrat Great Society. So why do you keep voting for them?
Statistics from federal databases provide a nuanced picture of the claims regarding race, welfare, crime, and social policies.
Welfare Demographics
While Black Americans participate in safety net programs at higher per-capita rates due to historical economic disparities, they are not the largest group on welfare in raw numbers. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau
Census and the USDA on SNAP (food stamps) shows that white and Hispanic individuals make up the majority of overall recipients when measured by total numbers
Pew,
Al Jazeera.
Out-of-Wedlock Births
According to the
CDC, the nonmarital birth rate has risen across all racial groups
CDC. While Black women currently have a high rate of nonmarital births (around 69%), other demographics like American Indian/Alaska Natives experience similarly high rates CDC,
MapPorn. The causes are heavily debated by sociologists, with factors like changing cultural norms, declining marriage rates across the working class, and broader economic shifts playing a role
Politifact,
Manhattan Institute.
Crime Rates
Crime statistics from the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) show that Black Americans are disproportionately represented in arrests for violent crimes relative to their share of the population BJS. However, criminologists attribute these disparities not to race itself, but to compounding socioeconomic factors, including historical segregation, concentrated neighborhood poverty, and unequal access to employment and resources
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National Academies. [
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The Impact of the Great Society
The role of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" and its welfare programs in causing these social issues is a subject of intense historical and political debate
JSTOR:
- Critics argue that the welfare state created disincentives for marriage by penalizing two-parent households and fostering government dependency, which they believe contributed to the breakdown of the nuclear family and an associated rise in crime Manhattan Institute.
- Supporters and many economists point out that the Great Society included vital civil rights legislation, Head Start, and Medicare/Medicaid American Progress. They argue that the War on Poverty programs significantly reduced poverty among vulnerable groups like the elderly Digital History, and that family breakdown and crime are primarily driven by deeper systemic issues such as lack of economic opportunity and historical disenfranchisement rather than social welfare incentives Politifact, Moynihan Report. [1, 2, 3, 4]