Again bullshit
You’re both virtue signaling as a reflex cause you can’t help it
We’ve been so brainwashed that we’re all alike
Race is a social construct etc
The black illegitimacy rate in 1962 was 20-25%
The white rate was .5-2%
I was born in 1957
Growing up I knew personally of one illegitimate kid
A country girl from our home county in Mississippi ....Smith....she was scorned and my maternal grandma took her and the little boy in
Eventually her being very pretty a man scooped her up anyhow and adopted the boy as his
White rate is now 20-25% and black rate around 80% but I suspect it’s much higher cause I don’t know any black or mulatto kids with daddies in their lives
Latino rate is 55-60%....good Catholics obviously
Where I live lower class white girls are morbidly obese and have mulatto babies and none marry....
It’s not just welfare....it’s culture
Although now I get to virtue signal too
Illegitimacy in Europe has skyrocketed
South America is worst
Colombia is 84%
Neither of us said that culture wasn't a contributing issue to the state of things today...it certainly IS today, that is undeniable and, in my opinion, incontestable.
But that isn't the root cause of the problem, as Thomas Sowell has laid out and backed up with inarguable statistics that bear out the "Great Society" programs as being the root cause that pushed things inexorably in the direction that results in what we see today.
Culture follows what is happening in an environment, IMO.
I have made the point time and time again on this forum that the most destructive and corrosive force in black America today is "Black Culture". The problem the rest of the country has is that the media and other forces have caused it to spill over into other demographics in this country, and that isn't good for anyone.
As you rightfully point out, those statistics on wedlock are appalling. Simply appalling.
“The black illegitimacy rate in 1962 was 20-25%
The white rate was .5-2%”
That sounds about right to me. What really blew up the black rate was the soon to arrive Lyndon Johnson Great Society programs that effectively paid women to be single mothers. IIRC Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave a speech warning about that.
And about the same time The Pill hit American culture like a bomb and sexual mores got a whole lot looser just as Boomers were growing up.. and then Roe v Wade threw gas on that fire