50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream. Today's Liberals have forgotten exactly what that dream was. It was not quotas and racial preferences. It was not welfare, and government housing. It was not single parenthood, and the "soft bigotry of low expectations". It was for his children to be judged by the content of their character, NOT the color of their skin.
For the professional race hustlers of the left who stole his dream, jesse who kept his blood soaked shirt to use as a prop to launch his own career as a racial divider, or Al who lied about a white police officer raping a young black girl to launch his career, the legacy is about consolidating their own power AT THE EXPENSE of their own people.
In 1962, the black marriage rate was 84%, the Black illegitimacy rate was 23.6%. 50 years of government dependency has changed that calculus. Today the marriage rate is 36%. the illegitimacy rate is 71.2%.
40 years ago Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote his seminal "The Negro family: A Case for national action". In it he decried that 24% illegitimacy rate as the "root cause of all social ills in the Black community". He was immediately denounced by leftist social scientists, claiming that illegitimacy was not a concern, because the government was there to provide money. They also claimed that the government could not insert itself in the life of blacks, they had been through so much. Moynihan was correct. NOW 40 years later we see the direct progression of those social scientists policies, DETROIT!
5 years ago, Bill Cosby was roundly denounced for proclaiming one simple truth. That the BEST thing young black could do to lift themselves out of poverty was; to complete school, to get and hold a job, to not have kids until married. These pathologies, encouraged by government policy and programs for 50 years have wrought poverty and destitution upon the Black population.
It is high time for an HONEST conversation about government social policy. Leave out the intentions, they never materialize into achievement. Deal with the RESULTS.
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