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Thomas Sowell: "Herbert Gutman did a study which was published in 1976 studying the deterioration of the black family. The following was concluded: - More than 80% of black children in the 1920's were raised by two parent families. - Homicide rate among blacks was lower in 1940, and... show more

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Thomas Sowell: "It is a lie that problems in the black community are attributed to the legacy of slavery. Black married couples were more prevalent in the 20's than today. Black unemployment rate was lower in the 1930's than today. The decline began in the 1960's with the welfare state."

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The first colour episode of Ivor The Engine was broadcast on this day in 1976 (the original black and white series aired on ITV during the late 1950's).

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“The black community was at its strongest economically while being segregated.” This is true. In the 1930s to 1960s, when actual legal racism existed, most black children grew up in a two-parent home. Black marriage rates at the time actually trumped white marriage rates. Now, with all the progress we’ve made, 75% of black children grow up without a father, and black women today have a lower marriage rate than black men and than white women. So the answer to all the black community’s problems CANNOT be “systemic racism,” if they were doing better back when racism was more prevalent and was actually written into laws.

“The black community was at its strongest economically while being segregated.” This is true. In the 1930s to 1960s, when actual legal racism existed, most black children grew up in a two-parent home. Black marriage rates at the time actually trumped white marriage rates. Now, with all the progress we’ve made, 75% of black children grow up without a father, and black women today have a lower marriage rate than black men and than white women. So the answer to all the black community’s problems CANNOT be “systemic racism,” if they were doing better back when racism was more prevalent and was actually written into laws.

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Democrats used the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to destroy the black family structure. • Every census from 1890 to 1950 showed that black labor force participation rates were higher than those of whites. • In 1950, 72% of all black men and 81% of black women had been married Pregnancies had been decreasing; both poverty and dependency were declining, and black income was rising in both absolute and relative terms to white income. • In 1965, 76.4% of black children were born to married women. What change? After the magnificent Dr. King advocated for peace and inclusion, this led to white guilt which Democrats used to take advantage of to fund President Johnson’s “War on Poverty This attacked longstanding values and principled behavior within the black American community This is what Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called “defining deviancy downward.” & with Civil Rights Act of 1964 giving legal credence to making any sort of behavioral judgment toxic, the culture that held together the black American family was fundamentally changed. The result: • The 1960 census showed the first signs of a decline in black marriages, with acceleration in later years. • In 1980, 31% of all black first-born children were born to teenage mothers. • By 1992, 54% of all black children were living only with their mothers. • From 1990 to 1994, 77% of first births to black women were premarital. • By the 2000s, 75% of blacks with a high-school degree or some college were not married. • Less than half of black students graduated from high school in 2005. • Today, black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at ten times the rate of white and Hispanic males of the same age combined. • In many urban areas, the black illegitimacy rate is well over 80%. Democrats hide our history because they intend to repeat it. They used white guilt to destroy us before. Do you think it’s random things got worse after BLM? We have to put our strings down. I am tired of us not being tired of being their puppets. What do we have to lose? We already lost ourselves along the way…

Democrats used the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to destroy the black family structure. • Every census from 1890 to 1950 showed that black labor force participation rates were higher than those of whites. • In 1950, 72% of all black men and 81% of black women had been married Pregnancies had been decreasing; both poverty and dependency were declining, and black income was rising in both absolute and relative terms to white income. • In 1965, 76.4% of black children were born to married women. What change? After the magnificent Dr. King advocated for peace and inclusion, this led to white guilt which Democrats used to take advantage of to fund President Johnson’s “War on Poverty This attacked longstanding values and principled behavior within the black American community This is what Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called “defining deviancy downward.” & with Civil Rights Act of 1964 giving legal credence to making any sort of behavioral judgment toxic, the culture that held together the black American family was fundamentally changed. The result: • The 1960 census showed the first signs of a decline in black marriages, with acceleration in later years. • In 1980, 31% of all black first-born children were born to teenage mothers. • By 1992, 54% of all black children were living only with their mothers. • From 1990 to 1994, 77% of first births to black women were premarital. • By the 2000s, 75% of blacks with a high-school degree or some college were not married. • Less than half of black students graduated from high school in 2005. • Today, black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at ten times the rate of white and Hispanic males of the same age combined. • In many urban areas, the black illegitimacy rate is well over 80%. Democrats hide our history because they intend to repeat it. They used white guilt to destroy us before. Do you think it’s random things got worse after BLM? We have to put our strings down. I am tired of us not being tired of being their puppets. What do we have to lose? We already lost ourselves along the way…

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The welfare state has been more destructive to the black family than slavery just by restructuring the incentives. In 1960, nearly a century after emancipation, only about 22% of black children grew up in single-parent households. By 1990, after the Great Society welfare expansions, that number had more than tripled. Thomas Sowell has long shown this wasn’t the lingering shadow of slavery or some vague “legacy.” The destruction of the black family was the direct result of welfare policies that subsidized single motherhood and penalized marriage. The incentives changed, and family structure collapsed accordingly.

The welfare state has been more destructive to the black family than slavery just by restructuring the incentives. In 1960, nearly a century after emancipation, only about 22% of black children grew up in single-parent households. By 1990, after the Great Society welfare expansions, that number had more than tripled. Thomas Sowell has long shown this wasn’t the lingering shadow of slavery or some vague “legacy.” The destruction of the black family was the direct result of welfare policies that subsidized single motherhood and penalized marriage. The incentives changed, and family structure collapsed accordingly.

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If you go back to 1960, 95% of children in the U.S. were raised by two married parents, regardless of social class—rich kids and poor kids alike. Fast forward to 2005, and for upper and upper-middle-class families, that number dropped only slightly, from 95% to about 85%. So in those households, the vast majority of kids were still raised by two married parents. For working-class and poor families, it was a different story. In 1960, 95% of kids had two married parents. By 2005, that had plummeted to around 30%. And that’s exactly what I saw growing up. I was a kid in 2005, and in the neighborhoods around me, intact families were rare. I had five close friends. None of us were raised by two married parents. I was in foster homes. Two friends were raised by single moms. Another by a single dad. Another by his grandmother because his mom was on drugs and his dad was in prison. That’s a pretty common picture of working-class families in America now—a lot of family breakdown.

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