[50sDad]

LBJ's "Great Society" did to the black community what all the Klan, and all the neo-Nazi's, and all the bigots of the world could not...it destroyed the black family. It make it so a man was not ashamed of being out of work, so that a woman was not ashamed of having babies out of marriage, and so a child was not ashamed to fail in school. Combined with the "sexual revolution" that made it acceptable for a man to father children and move on, a Rap tradition that saw no inconsistency in calling themselves "*i**ers" and their women "hoes", and a growing collection of oddball "spokespastors" that ignored the growing bankruptcy of values in the black culture only to blame it on "the Man", and you have the collapse of a culture.

When charity flowed voluntarily from the churches, you were expected at least to sit and listen to the Good News. When charity flows out of my wallet without my permission thorough government teats that require very little if anything of the end user, and into the mouths of an ungrateful populous, something is wrong.

[radiohead]

I’m a black female, 50-ish. Everything you said was spot on. When I was young it was still shameful to be pregnant out of wedlock. The civil rights era had changed opportunities for blacks and young men were eager to go to college, to get the better-paying jobs that were now open to them. When redlining stopped, folks wanted to take their families to pleasant neighborhoods to live out the American dream just like anyone else.

Now you’ve got ‘who’s my baby’s daddy’ on Maury, cop-killer rap lyrics and the glorification of thug life, people who’d rather get a lifetime government handout and live in a freakin’ slum than get up and get a job and live somewhere nice.

I’ve had it. I’m tired of people living on the government dole forever and I’m tired of hearing about these Katrina bums who, 2 years later, not only still can’t go to work, but complain about the private and government charity that they do get. The gall of this woman to sit up with a huge tv and compalin about what was given to her.