[curiosity]

The author of this article is right. The black family in America, prior to Lyndon Johnson’s destructive “Great Society” wet dream, was very stable.

Well, it was certainly better than it is now, but I would not call a situation in which 1 in 4 children are born out of wedlock "very stable."

Even in the pre-Great Society days MLK himself expressed alarm at what has happening to the black family.

I have no doubt the Great Society made things a lot worse, but let's not kid ourselves into thinking it was all hunky-dory beforehand.

[ought-six]

“but let’s not kid ourselves into thinking it was all hunky-dory beforehand.”

I never said it was hunky-dory. I said it was one hell of a lot better, and one hell of a lot more stable before the abomination known as the Great Society.