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
Being as half of slave owners were black and half of the slaves were owned by blacks it has never been a racial issue.
No matter the evidence, “people still believe that”, in the words of Walter F. Mondale, accusing Reagan of trying to cut Medicare.
And to think a study was needed.
Well, I don’t think in the USA half of slaveowners were blacks; I think it’s more like 10 percent. Don’t have the statistics before me.
Logical arguments have no effect on the liberals. Its part of their dogma to cast in concrete any stupid idea that comes along the pike, stomp their feet and shout ‘racist’ or ‘bigot’ at anyone who doesn’t immediately embrace their madness.
Logical arguments have no effect on the liberals
That’s because the “issues” they champion are really just excuses for advancing the agenda.
Blacks these days are their own worst enemies. Voting themselves back into slavery to the state. Most of them don’t even realize it was Republicans with a Republican president who freed the slaves against the violent southern democrat slave holders. It’s really very sad they don’t even know their own history and if they do they find ways to deny it.
The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.
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Another tid-bit that is never mentioned is that slavery was going on on this continent long before the establishment of the USA.
The USA didn’t start slavery here, it ended it.
“Will black America ever notice? I sure hope so.”
The destruction wrought on slave-descended black Americans is best described as “self-genocidal”. And it’s getting harder and harder to conceal the fact behind ever increasing numbers of African immigrants, who are demographically combined with them but do not suffer their cultural cancer.
38,000 black abortions in NYC alone, *every year*. 72% illegitimacy rate, with single parents raising children who are in a “survival” mode of ruthless self interest and prison, not the “success” mode that leads to self improvement and prosperity.
“Will black America ever notice? I sure hope so.” At least before they go extinct.
Facts are racist.
It all has to do with leftists, and the bigotry of low expectations.
Check D’Souza’s movie America.
Bingo. As I have said before, the definition of a liberal is “one who would never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.”
Thanks for that reminder.
Yup!...they don't want facts!!!....Facts get in the way of “feeling” you cant have hi self-esteem without “feeling” more then the other guy with facts...
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