“At the time, 25 percent of blacks were born outside of wedlock, a number that the future Democratic senator from New York said was catastrophic to the black community.”
Used to be the case; now we fast track them to Harvard and then make them president.
Why can’t we use the word “bastard” anymore?
As a matter of FACT, we are all being ruled by bastards-RIGHT NOW!
On the other hand...blacks (and my old hometown is typical)...they kill as if it's just a way to settle a matter...cool and with no remorse...a way of life. No big deal in their world.
They make a mockery of education...a 40% graduation rate?? They collect welfare in lieu of working. Until THEY change their ways, things will stay the same. Disgusting...
It went from 25% in 1965 to 72% today!
There is a related but simpler explanation. Parents need to be responsible. Many parents are irreponsible these days although luckily in most cases the kids don’t become mass murderers. But when a kid does turn into a mental case it is the parent’s responsibility to get the kid into treatment. Not dump them at school like the VA Tech shooter. Not keep them completely alone at home and out of social interaction and treatment like Lanza and Loughner.
Re: Angry, authoritative, cold fathers: For every maladjusted criminal coming from such a household there are a lot more that shrug it off, overcome it and vow that they will not be that way themselves.
Add the fact that inner cities are filled with abortion clinics sending the message that people are unwanted, worthless, and death is a choice.
Moynihan wrote: “A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken homes, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any rational expectations about the future — that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, unrestrained lashing out at the whole social structure — that is not only to be expected, it is very near to inevitable.”
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Enter abortion. Utopian promises were made that “Every child a wanted child” would be good for society as a whole by reducing childhood neglect, abuse, crime and poverty.
So much for that.
Add the fact that inner cities are filled with abortion clinics sending the message that people are unwanted, worthless, and death is a choice.
Do I think it's horrible that so many black children are born out of wedlock? Not any more so than I think it's horrible that any children are born out of wedlock. Everyone should have a mother and father. That's the ideal.
Before anyone jumps in and says single moms can raise good kids, I'm not saying everyone raised like this is going to turn out bad. I'm saying as a matter of public policy and culture we should try to encourage traditional marriage. Why? Because it's best for society.
I'm sure I just offended a whole lot of folks, like those with single or two moms. Saying single motherhood is equal to traditional marriage is like saying all cultures are equal, a premise that can be proved false based on a number of measures.
Another brilliant column that only a black man can write in this PC environment.
Any non-black who wrote it would reflexively be dismissed as a racist.
Larry Elder: another national treasure about whom “his people” choose to know little or nothing.
The same is true for all of us - black or white, male or female.
Feminism is just a female gang out to get revenge against their missing fathers.