Posted on 06/30/2015 3:33:42 PM PDT by robowombat
Data Proves that Slavery has Little to do with the Current Plight of African-Americans By Onan Coca / 24 June 2015 /
The brilliant economist and political thinker (and Professor at George Mason University) Walter E. Williams has a new column up at CNS News discussing modern black America. Professor Williams is a conservative African-American who is often at odds with the liberal orthodoxy on the problems within the black community, and his latest commentary is no different. In his latest effort, Williams discusses the mythology that has arisen around the current problems in the black community – particularly fatherlessness, broken families and unemployment. Listen as Williams demolishes some commonly held liberal beliefs, such as today’s problems can be traced back to slavery.
“Hustlers and people with little understanding want us to believe that today’s black problems are the continuing result of a legacy of slavery, poverty and racial discrimination. The fact is that most of the social pathology seen in poor black neighborhoods is entirely new in black history. Let’s look at some of it.
Today the overwhelming majority of black children are raised in single female-headed families. As early as the 1880s, three-quarters of black families were two-parent. In 1925 New York City, 85 percent of black families were two-parent. One study of 19th-century slave families found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the children had the same mother and father.
Today’s black illegitimacy rate of nearly 75 percent is also entirely new. In 1940, black illegitimacy stood at 14 percent. It had risen to 25 percent by 1965, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action” and was widely condemned as a racist. By 1980, the black illegitimacy rate had more than doubled, to 56 percent, and it has been growing since. Both during slavery and as late as 1920, a teenage girl raising a child without a man present was rare among blacks.
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Walter E. WilliamsMuch of today’s pathology seen among many blacks is an outgrowth of the welfare state that has made self-destructive behavior less costly for the individual. Having children without the benefit of marriage is less burdensome if the mother receives housing subsidies, welfare payments and food stamps. Plus, the social stigma associated with unwed motherhood has vanished. Female-headed households, whether black or white, are a ticket for dependency and all of its associated problems. Ignored in all discussions is the fact that the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits since 1994.”
Williams goes on to discuss similar problems when analyzing modern black unemployment rates and low earnings.
I was amazed by all of the FACTUAL information provided by Williams, which can be easily proved with just a little research. The numbers are staggering and the connection between the problems in the black community and the welfare state are so far more compelling that it seems almost laughable that liberals continue to blame slavery for these issues. The truth is staring them in the face and still they choose to ignore it.
I think I may have been most impressed with this statement, though.
“Ignored in all discussions is the fact that the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits since 1994.”
The impact of this one statement should be immediately recognizable. The breakdown of the family may be the single most important factor in the current struggles of American blacks. Married black couples have a poverty rate the rivals married white Americans! The problem is that American blacks are far more likely to suffer from broken homes than the average white family. Couple these two facts and the obvious and easiest solution to many of the problems facing today’s black America is to make sure that couples marry and stay together! But of course, it’s just not that easy, is it?
What is ironic in all of this, as Williams points out, is that the welfare state incentivizes bad behavior, which leads to terrible results. Under the American welfare system a single mother “earns” more from the government than a married couple, and the more kids that single mother has… the more money she “earns.” It’s a vicious cycle and the liberal welfare warriors just keep making things worse.
Will black America ever notice? I sure hope so.
Read more at http://eaglerising.com/20023/data-proves-that-slavery-has-little-to-do-with-the-current-plight-of-african-americans/#RcBtY8VURweeigIl.99
So you haven’t watched Yuri Bezmenov.
No more welfare for negros.
It is not unreasonable to put a major part of the blame on White agitators & politicians; but the culprits doing the corrupting were all on the Left. Black America has been victimized by demagogues, white & black, who promote Blame & Envy, at the expense of personal responsibility; and those who have corrupted Education, while promoting greater dependency on Government. The cruelty of what has been accomplished in the name of a fake "idealism," is staggering.
Talk about a "cultural divide"...!
What about black queers?
Actually, I have.
Because marriage was never the ultimate goal for glbt's; gaining an official stamp of approval on their behaviors was the reason for insisting on gay marriage, so that then they could infiltrate schools and churches with a facade of legitimacy and begin to destroy those institutions.
Give the africans a break...slavery 150 years ago is the only excuse they’ve got. Take that away and they’d have to deal with reality.
Gee I figured this out in 3rd grade decades ago.
Theodore Dalrymple proves that this is not due to racism nor to slavery by pointing out that the WHITE English underclass have the same problems as poor Americans — and the same high levels of unemployment and non-existence of fathers
“Africans” do very well in the USA — look at recent immigrants from Kenya, Nigeria, etc. and they are conservative, hard-working, good people. Those who associate with a ghetto culture, whatever their backgrounds or skin colours, are the one who have failure
I have no idea as to where to seek data on << 1% of the US populace...
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