He is right, but has things backwards. The *single*, proximate cause of the vast majority of problems that the black community suffers from is “Sex outside of Marriage.”
Now let me parse that in an unexpected way.
When I say “the black community”, I mean *exclusively* those American blacks descended from slaves. *Not* African immigrants, who are inappropriately lumped together with the s-d blacks.
Why? Because African immigrants DO NOT have this cultural baggage. They strongly believe in monogamous marriage and the family. And they shun s-d blacks because they can *objectively* see their horrific self destruction and cultural cancer.
So literally “race is not an issue, here”, AT ALL.
The issue is “Sex outside of Marriage”. This causes the ridiculously high illegitimacy rate of 72%. And that, in turn, creates children who are 60% more likely to criminally offend.
Children with single parents are raised in a survival mode, not a success mode. So the city is like a jungle, and the other people would either make you prey, or are your prey.
Because it is hard to go it alone, such young people group together in packs, like hyenas, and become territorial.
Their lives are driven by impulse, not thought or planning, and certainly without any long term goals. And so they live by the sword and die by the sword.
In the grand scheme of things it is not really their fault, but the fault of their parents, who could not contain their lusts and were encouraged not to do so with the idea that it harms no one and gives great pleasure.
Guess what? It did and does cause great harm. It ruins lives, and multiplies misery and suffering over generations.
If Martin Luther King lived today, the single most important thing he could do would be to persuade black Americans to shun sex outside of marriage as if their lives depended on it.
And their disaster should be fair warning for the rest of us.
29% of white children, and 53% of Latinos are born to unmarried women. It is almost to the point where public aid for unmarried parents should be forbidden as encouraging child abuse.
“If Martin Luther King lived today, the single most important thing he could do would be to persuade black Americans to shun sex outside of marriage as if their lives depended on it.”
I often wondered what would have happened if King had started a revival instead of a rights movement.
You are more right than you know. Modernity is mostly just rationalized (and then subsidized) sexual promiscuity
We all know strong the sex drive is. For millenia one of the functions of religion was to contain it. Christianity - forget whether you believe it or not - was the summit of the evolution of religion as the container of libido. It struck the perfect balance between warnings of divine anger and a positive, flesh-affirming view of sex within heterosexual marriage. This is the only recipe for channeling the sex drive. No secular worldview is capable of producing the slightest force to countervail the urge to throw off all fidelities and copulate. And that is very, very bad for civilization, because it produces children raised without fathers.
And - pay attention - girls without fathers, or good fathers, become “girls gone wild”, as they desperately seek the admiration from a male gaze which a virtuous father would supply, even as he taught her that she need not throw away her princess-hood to get it.
Boys without fathers become animals, predators in the streets who band into gangs for protection. They’ll devolve into tribalism, committing atrocities in thrall to a clan chief (faux-father). A boy needs a father to grab him by the arm at an early age and say “men don’t behave like that. Straighten up or I’ll kick your ass.” Boys instinctively know they need this, and always feel gratitude in later years for a tough but loving father.
So Christendom, that unrealized ideal, realized in fragments and imperfect hybrids here and there, for all its flaws, was the cradle of science and civilization alike.
I need to be clear here: I am not talking about a male-dominated society or a patriarchy. The Christian father rules by strength through love and a service attitude (people should actually READ St. Paul). Islam is not capable of creating a great civilization because the Muslim father (like Allah) rules by force, and seeks to perpetuate the rule of his sons over all females. It’s all just a pre-civilized tribal structure with Allah at the top of a coercive pyramid. The Incarnation, that sole unique historical event, flipped the traditional religious pyramid upside down. The religion of Mohammed is not just a rival to Christ - it is the opposite. But this is not the day for comparative metaphysics - my point is about families. Only Christendom creates a civilization made of families.
Mothers - most mothers - simply cannot do their own part and also make up for the lack of the father. So single motherhood gradually erodes the culture from within, producing loose daughters who breed with predator sons, and it all spirals downward. The opposite of civilization. We see it now most advanced in Black culture in America, but that’s just because they are ahead of white culture by a few decades
The decadence of Black culture in America is completely explainable by the illegitimacy rate, and you cannot birth babies into homes without breadwinners unless there is money from somewhere. Money flows into the Black community unconnected to work in massive amounts. Give people free money, no matter what color their skin is, and they will devolve into a pre-civilized state. Again, since the strongest force held in check by the structures of civilization is sex, undisciplined sex and its sequelae is a most visible mark that civilization is collapsing
This is to simplify a bit, in order to exegete. Many individuals and families who may be Muslim or completely atheist do not fit this stereotypical analysis. I am not talking about them. I am generalizing, because the exceptions, even if there are many, are irrelevant. In every cultural group, the predictable future is the present mean.
Also, this has all occurred historically alongside the rest of America rapidly throwing off the yoke of Christendom, so other changes - like easy abortion - are proximate causes. And other racial and ethnic groups are tacking to and fro behind the Black community in the same direction, using the same winds. It’s just that the collective bad conscience from slavery accelerated the Black descent before all others.
The secularizing forces are really just in search of a state of being that has two features: 1. Free Sex, and 2. Free Money. That’s it. Secular man is nothing more than a spoiled teenager. In the West, our endgame is this condition of “terminal affluence”, where we all have free sex and free money. Modernity is just the drive toward subsidized promiscuity.
And it will be hell.
Wow, figures have gone up since I last saw.