“I tie it back to LBJ and the welfare state that was created back then. Black families with no fathers skyrocketed after the mid 1960’s. Families getting handouts from the government with no fathers, no responsibility, no accountability. And of course with no fathers around the boys still seek a father figure, so the gang leaders fulfill that role.”
Yes, the “welfare society” mentality created by LBJ’s “great society” policies was A PART of the problem, but a large demographic shift - millions of young blacks, predominately single young men, migrating from the south to the northern more industrial cities - helped create the growth of “fatherless families” in both the south and the north, and that change also had the big unions as a negative factor, in the north, where racist union bosses limited the good union jobs blacks could get. I remember reading an article by Thomas Sowell of how Chicago had a healthy black middle class of professionals and small businesses BEFORE the 60s, and as the dmographics of Chicago changed with the masses moving in from the south, a good deal of that black middle class left Chicago, which made things there worse with who was left behind (not that one could blame those that left).
What Liberal/Progressive VOTERS never face up to is the consequences of the policies they are induced by THEIR politicians to support.