Anonymous ID: cb9156 June 27, 2018, 1:41 a.m. No.1922357   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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American Thinker 3/9/14

 

โ€ข In 1950, 72 percent of all black men and 81 percent of black women had been married.

 

โ€ข Every census from 1890 to 1950 showed that black labor force participation rates were higher than those of whites.

 

โ€ข Prior to the 1960โ€™s the unemployment rate for black 16 and 17-year olds was under 10 percent.

 

โ€ข Before 1960, the number of teenage pregnancies had been decreasing; both poverty and dependency were declining, and black income was rising in both absolute and relative terms to white income.

 

โ€ข In 1965, 76.4 percent of black children were born to married women.

 

So what changed the equation?

 

By the 1960s, American society was riddled with generations of โ€œwhite guilt.โ€ In reaction and repentance sparked by Dr. Kingโ€™s nonviolent civil disobedience and the systemic introspection of social norms by whites, Americans overcompensated with sweeping entitlement programs under President Johnsonโ€™s โ€œWar on Poverty,โ€ and by turning a blind eye to accountability on longstanding values and principled behavior within the African American community. While affirmative action and desegregation jump-started social change, the unintended consequences of shifting the cultural incentives upside down were ignored.

 

This caused what Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called โ€œdefining deviancy downward.โ€ And with Civil Rights Act of 1964 giving legal credence to making any sort of behavioral judgment toxic, the cultural glue that held together the African-American family was fundamentally changed.

 

This destabilization has created turbulent neighborhoods that have devastating costs to children ranging from poverty, educational deficiencies, violence, crime, drugs, and a culture of victimization and entitlement.

 

Basic developmental psychology tells us that boys and girls growing up without fathers and stable homes are overwhelmingly more likely to lack self-discipline and personal responsibility than children growing up with married parents. The economic, emotional, and spiritual guidance that two parent families provide are the cornerstones of effective family institutions. Without that stability, institutional collapse is eminent.

 

The statistics since 1960 support this analysis.

 

โ€ข Between 1960 and 1964, blacks were rising into professional and other high-level positions at a rate greater than the five years following passage of the Civil Rights Act.

 

โ€ข The 1960 census showed the first signs of a decline in black marriages, with acceleration in later years.

 

โ€ข Since the 1960s the black labor force participation rates have been lower than whites and unemployment rates for black 16 and 17 year olds has never dropped below 20 percent.

 

โ€ข In 1980, 31 percent of all black first-born children were born to teenage mothers.

 

โ€ข By 1992, 54 percent-of all black children were living only with their mothers.

 

โ€ข From 1990 to 1994, 77 percent of first births to black women were premarital.

 

โ€ข In the 1980s and 90s, an absolute majority of those black families with no husband present lived in poverty.

 

โ€ข By the 2000s, 75% of blacks with a high-school degree or some college were not married.

 

โ€ข In 2005, Black people accounted for 13% of the total U.S. population yet they were the victims of 49% of all the nation's murders; and 93% of black murder victims were killed by other black people.

 

โ€ข Less than half of black students graduated from high school in 2005.

 

โ€ข In 2009, 73% of black children were born to unmarried mothers.

 

โ€ข In 2012, blacks in New York constituted 78% of shooting suspects and 74% of all shooting victims even though they are less than 23% of the cityโ€™s population. Young black men in New York are 36 times more likely to be murdered than young white men.

 

โ€ข Today, black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at ten times the rate of white and Hispanic males of the same age combined.

 

โ€ข In many urban areas, the black illegitimacy rate is well over 80 percent.

 

โ€ข The national unemployment rate for blacks is over 13%, nearly five points above the average for all Americans. And black teen unemployment is over 40 %.