Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Government programs have accomplished what slavery Could not..They’ve destroyed the black family

Government programs have accomplished what slavery Could not..They’ve destroyed the black family:

"Then Walter Williams crystallized my thinking when he made the observation that government programs had accomplished what slavery could not do and what Jim Crow laws could not do… they destroyed the black family.

The numbers are stark. Williams points out that up until the 1940’s between 75 & 90 percent of all black children were being raised in two parent homes while today the number is less than 1/3.

He continued, pointing out that the illegitimacy rate amongst blacks was 18% in 1940 but ballooned to 72.5% in 2008. In a 1985 documentary he suggested that government programs, with their “good intentions” had led America’s black families into Hell.

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net..."

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