Destruction of Black Culture by LEFTISTs

Whether it is the dearth of marriages and families among contemporary blacks or their lower labor force participation than whites, or their high crime rates, slavery has often been invoked as an explanation. Yet the fact is that in the late nineteenth century, when blacks were just one generation out of slavery, there was nothing like today’s levels of unwed births or failure to participate in the labor force. It has been from the 1960s onward that these social pathologies have escalated. Whatever the cause, it has arisen long after slaver had ended.

Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pg.161

Democrat Welfare Has Harmed Blacks

Reams of data have shown how the Johnson administration’s 1964 introduction of new welfare programs, many specifically designed to address black poverty, decimated marriage in the black community. While marriage rates have declined among all ethnicities, black families have been by far the hardest hit.  Today, nearly half of black men and women have never married by age forty—the highest percentage of any ethnic group by a full 19 points. Because of that, almost 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers, and nearly 40 percent of women who get abortions are black, even though African Americans are only 12 percent of the population.  Yet more than half of Americans who receive food assistance (SNAP), income supplements (TANF), and rental subsidies are black.

Megan Basham, Shepherds For Sale, pg.54