Outspoken and gutsy, considering he teaches linguistics in the land of Libs at Berkeley. I have seen him a few times on FNC and was impressed by his rational thinking and calm but firm demeanor.
Posted on 09/10/2005 8:35:29 PM PDT by saquin
"This disaster proved that folks are just that, folks."
True, although some folks loot more than other folks.
SO9
Notice that McWhorter avoids mentioning LBJ and the Democrat congress that kicked off the "War on Poverty?" What's wrong with telling the historical truth of the matter?
"This was the first time that whites or blacks had taught black people not to work as a form of civil rights. Politicians and bureaucrats jumped on the new opportunity for political patronage and votes, and welfare quickly became a programme that essentially paid young women to have children."
This is an excellent summation of Democratic Party policy toward the urban poor in this country. Oh, and let's not forget the university liberals, who still believe that current welfare is not enough.
"Meanwhile, the most grievous result of the new consensus was black American history’s most under-reported event, the expansion of welfare. Until now, welfare had been a pittance intended for widows, unavailable as long as the father of one’s children was able-bodied and accounted for, and granted for as little time as possible.
"In 1966, however, a group of white academics in New York developed a plan to bring as many people onto the welfare rolls as possible. Across the country, poor blacks especially were taught to apply for living on the dole even when they had been working for a living, and by 1970 there were 169% more people on welfare nationwide than in 1960.
"This was the first time that whites or blacks had taught black people not to work as a form of civil rights. Politicians and bureaucrats jumped on the new opportunity for political patronage and votes, and welfare quickly became a programme that essentially paid young women to have children.
"Only in 1996 was welfare limited to five years and focused on training for work. But by then generations of poor blacks had grown up in neighbourhoods where there was no requirement that fathers support their children. Few grew up watching their primary parent work for a living. Most people paid nominal subsidies as rent and were thus less inclined to treat their living spaces well.
"The multigenerational welfare family with grandmothers in their forties became typical: young women had babies in their teens because there was no reason not to with welfare waiting to pick up the tab.
Bookmarked.
for sure, some were more well off than others, and just thought the Superdome was going to be "safe"......
about generations living off the dole......that is exactly what Appalachia is like....young grandmas on dissability as well as their children and as well as their grand children.....why work when you can hunt and fish and screw around all day and get freebies from the govt.....
this is all why WORK MUST BE REWARED not belittled....
I look at my taxes....then I think of people even with one child out of wedlock getting those big bucks back from the Feds with the earned income credit.....they get more money back then they paid in....
then again, maybe we taxpayers are the stupid foolish ones.....
Heck, I'm in a wheelchair and work (at home).
why work?.....why bother?....
Outspoken and gutsy, considering he teaches linguistics in the land of Libs at Berkeley. I have seen him a few times on FNC and was impressed by his rational thinking and calm but firm demeanor.
Let them build small towns and villages across the most porus parts of the border with Mexico-- starting with tent cities and quonsets-- then moving up as the border is strengthened. If we really need illegal immigration labor, then we will make provisions to let the needed numbers with the needed backgrounds in legally.
It's the oldest truism known to man - - "If you subsidize a behavior, you get more of that behavior."
SURELY this brilliant man will be interviewed on tomorrow's Sunday talk shows.
What? No?
Oh McCain, and Biden and a handful of shrill democrap hacks are 'free' and will be on?
SHOCKING!?!?
Pay them a bounty for each right ear they turn in.
Very interesting article; thanks for posting it.... its truth resonates across the Atlantic, doesn't it?
(sigh)
He looks gay.
Very, very true statement. That is why Robert Byrd is the Lyndon Johnson of West Virginia. Keep the folks dependant out there in the hollers and bus em' to the pols twice a year.
This is the salient quote. The target of the left has always been white America and talking about the undeniably bad effects lefty social beliefs have had on blacks is a bit like whining about the bad effects Nazi ideas had on the Ustashe and the Croats. Well, yes, but . . .
Speak for yourself. Plenty of thinking people think the flower children were shills for ruthless tyrants who murdered two million innocent people. Then emasculated the United States in the 1970s, which led to the deaths of several million more. If Reagan hadn't come along, they might have lost the cold war and destroyed civilization. They tried, as far as had the power.
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