Apparently had lower divorce rates than whites during that time. It didnt take long for Dems and LBJ to create the modern plantation and destroy the black family.
The valid comparison is a contemporaneous one between the black and White marriage rates, and the stats clearly show that blacks have never had a higher marriage rate than have Whites at any given time in America's history.
Prior to the welfare state, black fatherlessness was lower...but so was White fatherlessness. Yet the racial gap still existed. When the black fatherlessness rate was low, the White fatherlessness rate was practically non-existent.
Unforeseen consequences unleashed by government policy can either suppress or amplify preexisting racial dispositions; so, for instance, the Great Society programs to alleviate black poverty resulted in a massive surge in black fatherlessness....and a smaller rise in White fatherlessness.
Conversely, a combination of social factors up to and including Jim Crow restrictions helped tamp down the worst excesses of black dysfunction and prevented the blacks from reverting to their natural state of broken families and missing fathers.
Apparently had lower divorce rates than whites during that time. It didnt take long for Dems and LBJ to create the modern plantation and destroy the black family.
They had lower divorce rates but had higher crime rates and single motherhood rates.
The valid comparison is a contemporaneous one between the black and White marriage rates, and the stats clearly show that blacks have never had a higher marriage rate than have Whites at any given time in America's history.
Prior to the welfare state, black fatherlessness was lower...but so was White fatherlessness. Yet the racial gap still existed. When the black fatherlessness rate was low, the White fatherlessness rate was practically non-existent.
Unforeseen consequences unleashed by government policy can either suppress or amplify preexisting racial dispositions; so, for instance, the Great Society programs to alleviate black poverty resulted in a massive surge in black fatherlessness....and a smaller rise in White fatherlessness.
Conversely, a combination of social factors up to and including Jim Crow restrictions helped tamp down the worst excesses of black dysfunction and prevented the blacks from reverting to their natural state of broken families and missing fathers.