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| We Have a ‘War on Cops’ because of the War on the Family |
| 2016-07-17 |
| [AMERICANTHINKER] One of the reasons the deceptive liberal narrative about black lives is so doggedly defended and regularly repeated is that the truth about the very real suffering in the American black community runs counter to modern liberal dogma. The biggest reason for the rampant lawlessness and poverty that is so prevalent in the black community is the breakdown of the family. It has been widely reported for years now that the out-of-wedlock birth rate among American blacks is over 70 percent. Almost always, mothers are left to raise their children alone. In U.S. cities, where the violence and poverty among U.S. blacks is most pronounced, the out-of-wedlock birth rate is even worse. For example, in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... about 80 percent of black children are born to single mothers. Today, only 17 percent of American black teenagers reach age 17 in a family with their biological parents married to each other. In no state in the U.S does black family intactness exceed 30 percent. Social science is finally revealing what sound morality and good common sense always told us: Children of single mothers do worse in almost every metric measured: school achievement, poverty, crime, emotional well-being, drug use, delinquency, violent behavior, and so on. These negative outcomes are even worse for black children born to single mothers. Millions of black youths -- because of the frequent absence of fathers -- are growing up poorly disciplined, poorly educated, and poorly churched. Thus, gangs and crime have become far too common in the black communities of America. Sadly, these broken and vulnerable black families typically live in the most dangerous parts of our nation. From the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003, until the U.S. troop withdrawal in 2011, there were 4,485 U.S. casualties. The city of Chicago alone had 4,265 murders during the same time period. Perhaps the most shocking statistic of all when it comes to black Americans and violence is that black men in the U.S. are half as likely to die if they are in prison than if they are not. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... easily the most dangerous place for a black child in America is the womb. This is horrifically sad when one considers that a mother’s womb should be one of the safest places in the universe. Since the Roe vs. Wade ruling in 1973, abortion has killed more black Americans than crime, accidents, cancer, heart disease, or AIDS. Since 1973, abortion has taken the life of more black Americans than any other single cause of death. Again, in U.S. cities, these numbers are even more staggering. In New York City, in 2012, more black children were aborted than were born. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 "We are from the government and we are here to help." That will be the epitaph of this social justice movement. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-07-17 16:21 |
| #4 Your tax dollars at work. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-07-17 15:15 |
| #3 the beginning of the end for American families living in poverty (think 'inner city'). Also rural agrarians. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-07-17 13:46 |
| #2 Social science is finally revealing.... What everyone else has known for decades. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-07-17 11:06 |
| #1 In conversation, I always refer to the 1964/65 'Great Society' program as the beginning of the end for American families living in poverty (think 'inner city'). The program initiatives effectively made the presence of a father-figure and/or significant wage earner irrelevant for low income families. The government therefor became the 'wind and rudder' for the folks that the new laws supposedly were to help. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-07-17 09:31 |