He's absolutely right.
The Democrats, as expected, are chewing up Donalds out of political expedience, but his attempt to find a silver lining to the dark cloud of segregationism is positively nuts. And segrergation was a tenet of the DEMOCRATS!
As Katie Britt did with her lame SOTU response, as Noem did with publicizing her dog shooting, so Donalds joins the list of self-disqualifying veep nominees.
Not even a question.
Whatever, he is right. Lbj was an evil sob.
He's absolutely right.
The Hill has reached out to Donalds’s office for clarification on his statement.
What could be more clearer that that?
Blacks did dress better back in those good ole days. They also knew their place in society.
Put down the Kool Aid and wise up.
don’t be a loser; it’s not becoming.
Black families were stronger in that era in parts of the USA that didn't have Jim Crow.
Of course they were stronger. I lived through that time, and all the black people I knew had intact families with the father present.
Unfortunately, his message will get lost in the knee-jerk response to Democrat Jim Crow and their KKK.
The Democratic leader argued that the Black community was not better off during a time when they could be lynched, “brutally murdered,” sexually assaulted, denied an education or the right to vote without consequences.
“How dare you make such an ignorant observation,” he said. “You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.”
All those transgressions were perpetrated by members of Mr. Jeffries' own party. The Democrat party.
Black families were not breeding armies of feral youth during that time, even though their lives were much more difficult due to actual racism, unlike the faux racism of today.
Don’t be daft like the leftists.
Hes not saying that Jim Crow was better. Hes saying black families were stronger WHILE they were being oppressed. It’d be the same thing as somebody saying that the American spirit was stronger during the depression than they are now. That’s not saying the depression was good - just that people were better during that time frame.
It should be obvious he didn’t mean Jim Crow laws were good. He was talking about the Jim Crow era, as one would refer to say, “ice cream recipes in the WW2 era,”
not attributing Jim Crow laws to aiding black families.
It is a fact that during that time period and despite the racism that black families were stronger than the single woman/ multi-babydaddy situations that are common today... as a child you were more likely to be born in a traditional two parent household then than now, when there is a better chance of being aborted or thrown in a dumpster at birth.
My sister was a welfare worker for the County Welfare Department in 1968. Her co-workers did night time “home checks” and if a man was found in the premises the welfare mom lost her dependent child benefit.
What could possibly go wrong?
“The diminishment of the nuclear family (black AND white)”
Jim Crow laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and remained in force until the mid-1960s. The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, expanded in the 1960s, is often blamed for the decline of the black nuclear family. The weakening of the nuclear family was not due to Jim Crow laws but rather a side effect of the welfare program’s expansion during that period.
Look at the rate of single mothers. It was very low in the Black community before the 1960s social programs.
he’s not. Black families had to be stronger to survive jim crow days.
just like families today are stronger because of pride celebrations.
>> but to frame Jim Crow as family-friendly is insane.
I don’t see that as an accurate summary of what Byron Donalds said.