That's the problem - conservatives are instantly called racists if they try to fight race related issues.
I think that the welfare state and over zealous child support laws have caused much of this. Why should a woman bother staying with her baby's daddy if she can do just as well financially (or even better) without him?
Since the child support laws are so draconian, why should a young black man making $20,000 a year even bother keeping a job if its all going to be siphoned off by a woman that isn't spending the money on the child and is sleeping with everyone but him. He is better off just going on welfare.
Reforming welfare and the child support laws is going to be terribly difficult though since they both will generate a lot of ignorant, emotional demagoguery. There's just not much bang for the buck there.
Instead, we should focus on issues that do have a huge pay off. Controlling our borders would be a great start. Abolishing the IRS and going to a retail sales tax would be another. Building more nuclear power plants and oil refineries would be a great one too.
Solving black on black crime is something that just isn't worth pursuing right now since we have so many bigger fish to fry.
>>I think that the welfare state and over zealous child support laws have caused much of this. Why should a woman bother staying with her baby's daddy if she can do just as well financially (or even better) without him?<<
For the good of the child perhaps???
I don't think the decision to have children out-of-wedlock is based on economics. I think it's based on the self-serving desire of the mother to fill a void in her life, and the self-serving desire of the father to have unprotected, irresponsible sex.