[don-o]

not the Liberty Lincoln had envisioned for the slave.

The sad and stupid thing about this whole uproar is that Bundy chose to refer to 1860 instead of 1960 and beyond. The black race made amazing progress - through many dangers, toils and snares.

Then came the War on Poverty.

If ever there were an object in the Law of Unintended Consequences, there it is.

[don-o]

The calamitous breakdown of the black family is a comparatively recent phenomenon, coinciding precisely with the rise of the welfare state. Throughout the epoch of slavery and into the early decades of the twentieth century, most black children grew up in two-parent households.
 Post-Civil War studies revealed that most black couples in their forties had been together for at least twenty years. In southern urban areas around 1880, nearly three-fourths of black households were husband-or father-present; in southern rural settings, the figure approached 86%. As of 1940, the illegitimacy rate among blacks nationwide was approximately 15%—scarcely one-fifth of the current figure.
 As late as 1950, black women were more likely to be married than white women, and only 9% of black families with children were headed by a single parent.