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Earlier today in another forum I posted a thread called the State of Black America. I linked that thread to a report from the Urban League Annual Report and asked the members of the forum to read the report. Instead what I got was a bunch of bs. The moderator of the forum asked me if I really wanted a honest conversation. So I said I did, but that we couldn't use steretypes. That we should not talk about the LBJ Great Society, the 40 trllion dollars that blacks were supposed to be getting from Welfare, the damage done by Democrats and other fake stereotyped arguments used by whte racists in discussions of black issues. Of course that got poo pooed by that moderator because as an expert on being black in America from Canada, she felt that these were major issues that I didn't want to hear about and that I only wanted to hear things on my terms. LOL!
She was wrong, I didn't want to argue senseless bs coming from whites that are not the problem.
“As late as 1950, only 18% of black households were single parent. From 1890 to 1940, a slightly higher percentage of black adults had married than white adults. In 1938, black illegitimacy was about 11% instead of today’s 75%. In 1925, 85% of black households in New York City were two-parent. Today, the black family is a mere shadow of its past.”-Walter Williams
Walter Williams, How Important Is Today’s Racial Discrimination?, Aug 14, 2019, How Important Is Today's Racial Discrimination?
In 1939, during this time of great black two-parent families, the poverty rate for employed married black couples was 89 percent.
Ross, C., Danziger, S. & Smolensky, E. The level and trend of poverty in the United States, 1939–1979. Demography 24, pg.596 (1987)
In 1959, the poverty rate for that same couple was 54.9 percent.
U.S. Department of the Census, Table 2. Poverty Status of People by Family Relationship, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1959 to 2014,https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/incomepoverty/historical-poverty-people.htm
These sky-high rates of poverty occurred during the time “conservatives” rant about. Today due to the “ liberal welfare state breaking up the black family by giving them welfare,” black poverty is 14.9 percent.
Now before I read any stupidity about how I am no expert, or how I don't speak for all black people, I am telling you rtat I am a college educated man, with a degree in sociology who has worked on, studied and researched issues that affect black and other low to moderate incme communities for 40 years. So if any one of you who disagree can match these credentials, cool.
Now that should gut at least one of the idiotic opinions, but it doesn't and people still want to cling to this lie.
She was wrong, I didn't want to argue senseless bs coming from whites that are not the problem.
“As late as 1950, only 18% of black households were single parent. From 1890 to 1940, a slightly higher percentage of black adults had married than white adults. In 1938, black illegitimacy was about 11% instead of today’s 75%. In 1925, 85% of black households in New York City were two-parent. Today, the black family is a mere shadow of its past.”-Walter Williams
Walter Williams, How Important Is Today’s Racial Discrimination?, Aug 14, 2019, How Important Is Today's Racial Discrimination?
In 1939, during this time of great black two-parent families, the poverty rate for employed married black couples was 89 percent.
Ross, C., Danziger, S. & Smolensky, E. The level and trend of poverty in the United States, 1939–1979. Demography 24, pg.596 (1987)
In 1959, the poverty rate for that same couple was 54.9 percent.
U.S. Department of the Census, Table 2. Poverty Status of People by Family Relationship, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1959 to 2014,https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/incomepoverty/historical-poverty-people.htm
These sky-high rates of poverty occurred during the time “conservatives” rant about. Today due to the “ liberal welfare state breaking up the black family by giving them welfare,” black poverty is 14.9 percent.
Now before I read any stupidity about how I am no expert, or how I don't speak for all black people, I am telling you rtat I am a college educated man, with a degree in sociology who has worked on, studied and researched issues that affect black and other low to moderate incme communities for 40 years. So if any one of you who disagree can match these credentials, cool.
Now that should gut at least one of the idiotic opinions, but it doesn't and people still want to cling to this lie.
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