In contrast, in the late 70s, a successful Black friend affectionately described his parents -- a Professor of Engineering at Tuskeegee and a Professor of English at a nearby state college -- as both being Archie Bunker in their cultural and religious values.
“The tragedy of Black America is that just as segregation was ended in the 1960s, America’s cultural revolution wrecked the moral consensus and settled practices that favored and strengthened the nuclear family.”
Yep. Thanks, LBJ! *rolls eyes*
It is really sad how the black nuclear family never really got the chance to make some progress.
Republicans, like Abraham Lincoln, have really always been on the side of freedom for black Americans, while Democrats have always tried to keep them chained, metaphorically speaking, to their “owners.” Now the “owner” is the welfare state.