[heartwood]

I agree that welfare and the loss of good blue collar jobs wrecked the black family, but I don’t think the political will to reverse those trends exists, not among the powerful. Restarting factories wouldn’t be easy, we have lost so much know how, ie machinists. And if we did have the factories and the jobs open, do people brought up for three generations of resentment and dysfunction have it in them to go to work and marry?

Let’s start there but it is not going to be easy at any step. Hard to put broken things together again.

[PapaBear3625]

I agree that welfare and the loss of good blue collar jobs wrecked the black family, but I don’t think the political will to reverse those trends exists, not among the powerful.

Middle-class and working-class women would oppose it. They don't want underclass women having an incentive to poach on the men in THEIR dating pools.

[pierrem15]

Let’s start there but it is not going to be easy at any step. Hard to put broken things together again.

I agree it won't happen overnight. But if we do nothing, the US will look like Brazil in 20 years. The biggest problem right now is, How do we get rid of the illegitimate regime in DC?