Posted on 06/05/2015 1:07:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On the 50th anniversary of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s famous report on the breakdown of the black family in urban ghettos, Baltimore has descended into the tragic violence and chaos he predicted. In a report titled, “The Negro Family: The Case for Action,” Assistant Secretary of Labor Moynihan, warned that the deterioration of the black family, would result in soaring crime rates if it continued unchecked.
In the most famous passage of the 1965 report, Moynihan, who would later become a Democratic U.S. senator, wrote, “From the wild Irish slums of the 19th-century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows large numbers of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future — that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, disorder are not only to be expected, they are very near to inevitable.”
When he wrote these words, the illegitimacy rate among African-Americans was 25 percent while illegitimacy nationwide, stood at 7.7 percent. In the mid-1960s thanks largely to Great Society welfare policies, the out-of-wedlock birth rate began to climb rapidly. Today the out-of-wedlock rate for blacks is over 72 percent with even higher rates in inner cities. Illegitimacy among Hispanics is now over 50 percent, and for whites it has risen from the 3 percent in 1960 to 36 percent today.
Moynihan’s words were prophetic. As family structure virtually disintegrated, Baltimore’s core has become a center of poverty and violence. Recent unchecked rioting in Baltimore has been followed by a crime spree with 32 people shot and nine killed just over the Memorial Day weekend.
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For later. Thank you.
Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Cassandra.
Somebody wrote a a book about certain things you aren’t allowed to say in America. I don’t remember if this subject was covered. But it strikes me that this is a subject you aren’t allowed to discuss. You aren’t allowed to talk about the baby mama culture, the gang culture, the drug culture, the public assistance culture, otherwise be condemned as racist.
so as a result, we don’t discuss these subjects. We don’t talk about the failures of 50 years of war on poverty programs. We just aren’t allowed to say anything in this politically correct world. We talk here on this site about anything, but, politicians and MSM talking head types will never touch on these matters.
The only thing that Moynihan did not seem to foresee is that that blacks were simply the canaries in the coal mine. Now that the urban, poor white family is pretty much destroyed, poor urban whites are exhibiting the same symptoms and pathologies.
If he really saw it coming, then he must have been a very evil and racist man. Why else would he have remained a democrat?
bkmk
Moynihan’s report was a blueprint for democrats to re-enslave blacks and create a permanent and reliable voting bloc dependent on government largess. It’s worked for 50 years.
I thank god my family was hard working and intelligent enough to raise me with some morals and values though I happen to be very flawed person, and never raised me in a place like that, and really folks need to see the writing on the wall sometimes even if its not PC, Geraldo Rivera a far left liberal even admitted the great society was a failure, and talking about those failures and how to solve it is not bigoted.
DPM- the last honest democrat.
The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America - Larry Elder
Diabolically effective and successful! The men/spirits that concocted this plan were brilliant and evil...
Like the war on poverty. 15% in 1965, today after 20 trillion spent...15%. You cannot discuss the most significant predictor of poverty...single parent households. So we continue to tilt after windmills spending money all the way...
LBJ was evil personified. He’d fit right in to this administration.
Ah yes....the days when some rats were still Americans.
But he'd make a great HHS cabinet secretary to actually speak some of these truths publicly.
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