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Government programs have accomplished what slavery Could not..They’ve destroyed the black family
Flopping Aces ^ | 06-07-11 | Vince

Posted on 06/07/2011 12:13:37 PM PDT by Starman417

For those of you who have never looked at my picture, I’m a white guy. Given the subject of today's piece I might as well get it out of the way. In addition, other than participating in ROTC at Florida A&M University (an historically black institution), spending a semester in Florida State’s Degraff Hall dormitory (at that time the dorm established primarily for “African American students”) and minoring in Black Studies while at FSU, I don’t have any particular experience in what one might call black culture. (I use the word culture in the general sense, recognizing that not every member of a particular group shares all aspects of that culture.)

I do have eyes however, and much of what I see of black America is not good. I say that not as an indictment of black people. On the contrary. I don’t think blacks are any better or worse than anyone else on the planet or in the country.

That being said, I put pen to paper on this topic because of a series of disturbing headlines I’ve seen over the last month combined with something Walter Williams recently said on John Stossel’s show. Over the Memorial Day weekend Drudge ran a series of headlines about chaos breaking out across the country: Chicago, Charlotte, Boston, Miami, Nashville… The common factor across each of these melees was that the problems involved large groups of black teens and young adults. These stories dovetailed with numerous recent accounts of “Flash Mobs” across the country (Washington, Las Vegas, St. Paul) where similar groups of black youths descended on a store of one sort or another and brazenly walked off with hundreds or thousands of dollars of merchandise.

Something struck me about the people whom I was reading about or watching on video… they seemed to have no appreciation for personal property. It seemed to me that the violence and mayhem being displayed was the result of people who had an entitlement mentality where they felt they could do whatever they wanted, could take whatever they wanted, regardless of the consequences on anyone else, simply because they could. One asks how do people end up with this type of mentality. The answer was obvious: the government’s nanny state.

Then Walter Williams crystallized my thinking when he made the observation that government programs had accomplished what slavery could not do and what Jim Crow laws could not do… they destroyed the black family. The numbers are stark. Williams points out that up until the 1940’s between 75 & 90 percent of all black children were being raised in two parent homes while today the number is less than 1/3. He continued, pointing out that the illegitimacy rate amongst blacks was 18% in 1940 but ballooned to 72.5% in 2008. In a 1985 documentary he suggested that government programs, with their “good intentions” had led America’s black families into Hell.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: democratplantation; democrats; govtabuse; liberals; nannystate; race
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To: Starman417

People who are out of touch failed to notice that the white family has been destroyed by the divorce/cohabitation industry over about 35 years by both political parties. Embrace the default ahead. Enjoy the slide.


21 posted on 06/07/2011 2:51:27 PM PDT by familyop (Shut up, and eat your brains!)
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To: brwnsuga
A good friend of mine who was my first computer teacher is black. He told me some horrific stories of what it was like growing up in Oakland CA, being black and wanting to excel. The peer pressure was very hard on him. He was beaten and harassed continually. He finally talked his parents into letting him go live with relatives who lived in the rural central valley where he was one of only three blacks in his high school and life was fine.

Going against the grain is tough in any society, it seems.

22 posted on 06/07/2011 4:45:40 PM PDT by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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To: Baynative

Going against the grain is tough in any society, it seems.

It is, but it can be done. I think the 2012 Election will see more Black folk jumping ship and not voting with the Dems (hopefully).


23 posted on 06/08/2011 3:16:11 PM PDT by brwnsuga (Go Navy!)
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