You might take a look at "The Moynihan Report: The Negro Family, a case for national action."
Written in 1965. It was bad then, it has gotten worse. There is no way to turn this around. Blacks and leftist whites can come up with more excuses than you have solutions. After 60 years, this is as good as it gets.
I haven't read The Moynihan Report and am certainly no expert on how things were back in 1965, but my impression is that the disparity in social outcomes between blacks and whites has widened since then. Glenn and John frequently make this point and others like Thomas Sowell do as well, that much of the relative deterioration of Black Americans has been post the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
For instance, the Black out of wedlock birth rate was only around 25% when Moynihan published his report back in 1965, but it's over 70% today. Even if disparities between Blacks and whites have always existed, the relative gaps have widened since the 1960s and the cultural changes wrought since then have clearly impacted Blacks more. I disagree that this is as good as it gets, because the data suggests that African Americans were significantly less dysfunctional when American society was more traditional.
Slavery was certainly a stain upon the ideals of this nation, but I would argue that whites today telling Blacks that all of their woes are due to racism is probably one of the most pernicious harms inflicted by one group of people upon another, because its deleterious effects are far more insidious and far less overt. There's no way that Blacks would get a pass for this kind of behavior if the country was majority Asian and suffused with a Confucian ethos.
You might take a look at "The Moynihan Report: The Negro Family, a case for national action."
Written in 1965. It was bad then, it has gotten worse. There is no way to turn this around. Blacks and leftist whites can come up with more excuses than you have solutions. After 60 years, this is as good as it gets.
I haven't read The Moynihan Report and am certainly no expert on how things were back in 1965, but my impression is that the disparity in social outcomes between blacks and whites has widened since then. Glenn and John frequently make this point and others like Thomas Sowell do as well, that much of the relative deterioration of Black Americans has been post the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
For instance, the Black out of wedlock birth rate was only around 25% when Moynihan published his report back in 1965, but it's over 70% today. Even if disparities between Blacks and whites have always existed, the relative gaps have widened since the 1960s and the cultural changes wrought since then have clearly impacted Blacks more. I disagree that this is as good as it gets, because the data suggests that African Americans were significantly less dysfunctional when American society was more traditional.
Slavery was certainly a stain upon the ideals of this nation, but I would argue that whites today telling Blacks that all of their woes are due to racism is probably one of the most pernicious harms inflicted by one group of people upon another, because its deleterious effects are far more insidious and far less overt. There's no way that Blacks would get a pass for this kind of behavior if the country was majority Asian and suffused with a Confucian ethos.