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Blacks Must Confront Reality
Creators ^ | August 26, 2014 | Walter E. Williams

Posted on 08/26/2014 6:21:35 PM PDT by george76

In 1950, female-headed households were 18 percent of the black population. Today it's close to 70 percent. One study of 19th-century slave families found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the children lived with the biological mother and father. In 1925 New York City, 85 percent of black households were two-parent households. Herbert Gutman, author of "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925," reports, "Five in six children under the age of six lived with both parents." Also, both during slavery and as late as 1920, a teenage girl raising a child without a man present was rare among blacks.

A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia found that three-quarters of black families were nuclear families (composed of two parents and children). What is significant, given today's arguments that slavery and discrimination decimated the black family structure, is the fact that years ago, there were only slight differences in family structure among racial groups.

Coupled with the dramatic breakdown in the black family structure has been an astonishing growth in the rate of illegitimacy. The black illegitimacy rate in 1940 was about 14 percent; black illegitimacy today is over 70 percent, and in some cities, it is over 80 percent.

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The Census Bureau pegs the poverty rate among blacks at 28.1 percent.

A statistic that one never hears about is that the poverty rate among intact married black families has been in the single digits for more than two decades, currently at 8.4 percent.

(Excerpt) Read more at creators.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: thegreatsociety
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To: kearnyirish2

Yes, resume inflation is a problem for everyone. It inflates expectations for Blacks and deflates the achievements of those who really are high fliers.

Plus, of course, there is the not inconsiderable fact that it’s a form of lying.


21 posted on 08/26/2014 7:34:26 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Jack Hammer

I’m not even referring to traditional “puffery” that one might engage in when seeking a job; I’m talking about preferred minorities listing actual credentials they’ve been awarded but haven’t earned. I’ve had an employee who received a masters in Accounting who knows little to no accounting itself; he is a good worker, but has no analytical or problem-solving skills (required to reconcile bank accounts and such). I genuinely sympathize with him because he feels he should be “higher up”; at one point he left for a better job and was let go from there shortly after - I guess the HR at the other place didn’t know how to screen “preferred minorities”.

In a horrible economy/job market like this, employers can quickly separate the wheat from the chaff; when the fat is trimmed from budgets the tokens are the first to go. I’ve seen it in two of my last jobs, and for many of those laid off it comes as a complete shock. It is the first reality they are confronting; they had serious delusions about the value they provided to an employer (and don’t even think of the employer/employee relationship in those terms).


22 posted on 08/26/2014 7:41:57 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: george76

Reality is not a black strong point.


23 posted on 08/26/2014 7:45:08 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: george76

The only thing they call reality is whiteys fault..


24 posted on 08/26/2014 7:47:50 PM PDT by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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To: george76

Why confront reality when whitey is available to blame? Black reality-dodgers can always count on naive, white libs to excuse their failures.


25 posted on 08/26/2014 7:56:11 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: george76

Today’s Democrats are doing what old-tyme Democrats like Nathan Bedford Forrest, Theodore Bilbo, and Byron de la Beckwith could only dream of-destroying the black race.


26 posted on 08/26/2014 8:21:50 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: george76

I love Walter. He speaks common sense.... which unfortunately is all too uncommon these days


27 posted on 08/26/2014 8:33:02 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Rome2000

I see what you’re saying but they didn’t have to agree to embrace it as a lifestyle.


28 posted on 08/26/2014 8:50:16 PM PDT by nodumbblonde ("I'm all for helping the helpless, but I don't give a rat's a** about the clueless." - Dennis Miller)
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To: george76

Much easier to blame whitey.

Doesn’t solve anything.

But much easier.


30 posted on 08/26/2014 9:54:21 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: george76

I would hope New Jersey Freepers are getting on board with Garry Cobb. His message is that LBJ and the Great Society killed the black family and its time to fix that mess.


31 posted on 08/26/2014 10:02:16 PM PDT by Finatic (Sometimes I think it would be nice to just get it on and get it over with. Once and for all.)
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To: george76

One more stat. Only 10% of black kids will reach age 18 with both parents in the home...


32 posted on 08/26/2014 10:05:32 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: george76

I would love to know the effect of public assistance on these figures.


33 posted on 08/26/2014 10:07:47 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Rodamala

Great movie! Heard rumors that libs may try to ban it, so we bought a copy. Good stuff.


34 posted on 08/26/2014 11:02:22 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: george76

Reality is hard. Especially when there is a political party that has told black Americans that they are powerless victims and may as well vote for democrats to get free stuff.


35 posted on 08/27/2014 12:43:29 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: george76
Blacks Must Confront Reality

Not gonna happen, Walter.

36 posted on 08/27/2014 5:37:27 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: 1010RD

Bump!


37 posted on 08/27/2014 8:26:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: 1010RD
Government replaced daddy with a welfare check and punished marrieds or the upwardly mobile. Here’s the result. Democrats did this. If we had a neutral media ever American would know this from kindergarten on up.

LBJ's GREAT SOCIETY!!!!

38 posted on 08/27/2014 8:41:59 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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