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Walter Williams: Challenges for Black People: Part II
Creators Syndicate ^ | July 20, 2016 | Walter E. Williams

Posted on 07/19/2016 9:44:53 AM PDT by jazusamo

The prospects for a better future are nearly hopeless for roughly 20 percent of black people — those who reside in big-city crime-infested and dysfunctional neighborhoods. There is virtually nothing that can be done about it without a major rebuilding of the black community from within. Let's examine some of the aspects of the problem and the dismal prognosis, given the status quo.

The most important social unit is the family. Many talk about the "breakdown" in the black family when a far more accurate description is that the family doesn't form in the first place. About 73 percent of black babies are born to unwed mothers. By the way, that percentage was 25 in 1963 and 11 in 1938. The absence of fathers is crucial. Even President Barack Obama recognized this when he said that "children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison." Female-headed households are a devastating problem, but the solution lies almost exclusively within the black community. It's a massive job for black churches and social organizations. If there is a role for government to play, it's to stop subsidizing such behavior with handouts.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: blackcrime; blackfamily; blacklivesmatter; education; familyvalues; residentbarack0bama; walterwilliams; williams
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1 posted on 07/19/2016 9:44:53 AM PDT by jazusamo
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Challenges For Black People: Part I
2 posted on 07/19/2016 9:46:59 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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I think it’s past the point of no return. The issues are so great, esp the illegitimacy, that it won’t be undone.

And blacks won’t vote for the politicians that would attack the issues head on, those nasty racist “Uncle Toms” and certainly not anyone white.

Ball of confusion . . .that’s what their world is today . . hey, hey


3 posted on 07/19/2016 9:51:57 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Legacy Kennedy . .give up YOUR job in the name of "Diversity")
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To: A_Former_Democrat

If it’s possible it’ll certainly be a steep uphill climb when over 70% of black babies are born out of wedlock, without the family unit it won’t get turned around in my view.


4 posted on 07/19/2016 9:58:18 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

We need to put Christianity back into our public life. The courts took God away and now we see the results.

Pray for revival.


5 posted on 07/19/2016 10:03:42 AM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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I think it’s past the point of no return. The issues are so great, esp the illegitimacy, that it won’t be undone.

Especially because all the same things are rapidly overtaking the white trash community.


6 posted on 07/19/2016 10:03:57 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Post #6 ~ I think it’s past the point of no return. The issues are so great, esp the illegitimacy, that it won’t be undone.

Especially because all the same things are rapidly overtaking the white trash community.

Yes, I can attest to the that truth, As I know some white trash (Second and third generation trash) who are sinking on that very same boat...


7 posted on 07/19/2016 10:10:03 AM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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8 posted on 07/19/2016 10:13:52 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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And a lot of these illegitimate children are interracial.
The race distinctions may fade away but the class distinctions are only going to get worse.


9 posted on 07/19/2016 10:41:45 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jazusamo

Walter Williams <=> Clayton Bigsby

Seriously I love WW.


10 posted on 07/19/2016 10:46:14 AM PDT by caddie
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And a lot of these illegitimate children are interracial.

And god bless (as if) the "Grannies;" the white grandmothers of interracial babies. Everybody shuns them, both races and all members of the now disfunctional life they lead. I've seen them in the grocery stores, pushing a cart full of baby and baby things; Mom is at work to support as best she can, being an unwed, uneducated woman in an already poor economy. No father in sight, no prospects for "Grannie" either if she's widowed or divorced, or even worse abandoned by whatever male she lived with. Seen it. 75 years of "Seen It."

11 posted on 07/19/2016 11:33:03 AM PDT by Ace's Dad ("World English" spoken and written here. European Ethnics are the superior race!)
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To: jazusamo

...it's to stop subsidizing such behavior with handouts.


12 posted on 07/19/2016 11:43:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: donna
We need to put Christianity back into our public life.



Are you still killing your unborn?

-- GOD


 

13 posted on 07/19/2016 11:44:51 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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And a lot of these illegitimate children are interracial.

and I'd bet that most of the mothers are white.

14 posted on 07/19/2016 11:45:52 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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He absolutely nailed that. If it ever happens the liberal leftist commies will go apoplectic but that’s a huge if.


15 posted on 07/19/2016 11:50:48 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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“The bottom line is that only black people can solve our (black people’s) problems.”

That requires responsibility for behaving, for learning, for income, for babies, for others, for life.


16 posted on 07/19/2016 12:06:50 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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To: Elsie

“I will revive all your children” — Jesus


17 posted on 07/19/2016 1:24:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Actually there’s been talk about attempting to establish self-sustaining black societies. On what model, is a good question. I don’t think it is the western classical liberal model, but some kind of Marxism.

There seems to be very little notice paid to the overwhelmingly white participation in boosting the stylization and glorification of the most dysfunctional behaviors of the underprivileged. Now THAT is a shame.


18 posted on 07/19/2016 1:29:51 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Elsie
Not sure about most, but certainly a good share.

This video explains why a goodly share of women are genetically disposed to pursue rotten men.

Christianity and heterosexual monogamy were introduced to help both men and women overcome and properly channel those genetic impulses. Without exception, civilizations which embraced them thrived whereas those which jettisoned them did not last.

19 posted on 07/19/2016 2:06:27 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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Love Dr Williams’ question to the elder black generation of race hustlers: would their moms have tolerated if they misbehaved in school? Heck no, that generation descended from former slaves applied swift punishment to their misbehaving kids! I am old enough to remember that an angry black mama had no trouble reprimanding her children in public. Just the way it was, no aspersions were cast in her direction way back then, Just R-E-S-P-E-C-T!


20 posted on 07/20/2016 12:13:10 AM PDT by The Westerner ("The president has blood on his hands and it will not be able to come washed off")
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