"Well, was anyone there calling for an end to subsistence-welfare? This has done more damage to black families than any sinister plot that some evil racists might have come up with."
AMEN!! Someone needs to tell Jesse Jackson that keeping a family on welfare for four generations is no way to "Keep Hope Alive".
I've always thought that since the gains of the civil rights movement, the problem in the black community was not welfare, but rather this pathology of not wanting to succeed in school for fear of being accused of "acting white." So you end up having black children who resist education and even learning how to speak proper English.
This pathology also fosters racism, because when you actively resist assimilating into a nation's culture and society and form your own sub-culture and sub-society that is at odds with the larger culture and society, you risk being treated differently by that larger culture and society -- particularly when your skin color instantly identifies you as a member of this sub-society.
Some blacks will say, well, we have always been and will always be treated differently precisely because of our skin color. But if that skin color no longer signaled to people in the larger society that here is an alien in our midsts, that is, one who resists and rejects the larger society, you would only have the more obvious kind of racism left.