The problem isn't skin color. The problem is fathers abandoning families--which I really do blame on slavery. I believe the black community is recapitulating the sale of fathers away from their families. They were raised with weaker moral obligation in that direction. A man raised without a father doesn't understand the need for a father. It was exacerbated by the growth of the welfare state because money doesn't replace a man in the family. Money's usually an amplifier. It magnifies both virtue and vice.
There are two things we can do to fix the problems that aren't just in the black community anymore, but are spreading:
Increase financial incentives for families to stay together. Tax breaks for married couples. Maybe a divorce penalty, like a one-time tax for the damage the breakup of your family will do to the community and nation. Set hard limits on how much of a father's income can go toward child support or alimony. And on...
Plain old propaganda. If we can do it for masks, we can do it for families. Slogans plastered on billboards. TV commercials. Talk about how the family is the backbone of our nation. A real family has a father, mother and children. Make families great again.
Gee, I wonder why. They're starting to murder white people with impunity there now as well. It's a common theme in African countries actually; they chase out and kill white people because "fuk wyh tee", the government does nothing to stop it and even covers for them, and then when they're starving to death they beg the evil white man to come back and make the place relatively prosperous again.
It's not just on the fathers, mothers get most of their bills paid if they're poor and there's no father in the picture. My aunt intentionally got knocked up by deadbeat guys who wouldn't be there for their kids so she wouldn't have to work for a living. When one of them would get close to turning 18 she'd have another. The only thing that stopped her was menopause.
The sale of slaves at auction in places where they are known—and this is the case every where except in the largest cities—excites deep interest in some of the citizens of that place. They are drawn to the sale with feelings of personal regard for the slaves, and are vigilant to prevent unprincipled persons from purchasing and carrying them away, and even from possessing them in their own neighborhood. I know of citizens combining to prevent such men from buying, and of their contributing to assist good men and women in purchasing the servants at prices greatly increased by such competition. In all such cases the law requiring and regulating public sales and advertisements of sales prevents those private transfers which would defeat the good intentions of benevolent men. It is an extremely rare case for a servant or servants who have been known in town to be removed into hands which the people of the place generally would not approve.
The sale of a negro at public auction is not a reckless, unfeeling thing in the towns at the south, where the subjects of the sale are from among themselves. In settling estates, good men exercise as much care with regard to the disposition of the slaves as though they were providing homes for white orphan children; and that too when they have published advertisements of slaves in such connections with horses and cattle, that, when they are read by a northerner, his feelings are excrutiated.
A South-Side View of Slavery, Reverend Nehemiah Adams.
In general great pains were taken to keep slave families together.
The modern view of Southern Slavery has been really warped by Hollywood etc.
I’m not saying it wasn’t bad, but it was hardly the over-the-top bullshit you see in movies like “Django Unchained”
fatherlessness has been the standard in Africa for hundred of years if not longer. it is their culture.
Jim Crow laws incentivised blacks to adopt and mimic the standards and practices of white people. Once the civil rights movement came along they went back to their old tribal ways.
The problem isn't skin color. The problem is fathers abandoning families--which I really do blame on slavery. I believe the black community is recapitulating the sale of fathers away from their families. They were raised with weaker moral obligation in that direction. A man raised without a father doesn't understand the need for a father. It was exacerbated by the growth of the welfare state because money doesn't replace a man in the family. Money's usually an amplifier. It magnifies both virtue and vice.
There are two things we can do to fix the problems that aren't just in the black community anymore, but are spreading:
Increase financial incentives for families to stay together. Tax breaks for married couples. Maybe a divorce penalty, like a one-time tax for the damage the breakup of your family will do to the community and nation. Set hard limits on how much of a father's income can go toward child support or alimony. And on...
Plain old propaganda. If we can do it for masks, we can do it for families. Slogans plastered on billboards. TV commercials. Talk about how the family is the backbone of our nation. A real family has a father, mother and children. Make families great again.
Gee, I wonder why. They're starting to murder white people with impunity there now as well. It's a common theme in African countries actually; they chase out and kill white people because "fuk wyh tee", the government does nothing to stop it and even covers for them, and then when they're starving to death they beg the evil white man to come back and make the place relatively prosperous again.
Laughable.
Not what they used to be, though.
Tanzania.
Race isn't just "skin color."
Behavior is to some extent genetic.
It's not just on the fathers, mothers get most of their bills paid if they're poor and there's no father in the picture. My aunt intentionally got knocked up by deadbeat guys who wouldn't be there for their kids so she wouldn't have to work for a living. When one of them would get close to turning 18 she'd have another. The only thing that stopped her was menopause.
A South-Side View of Slavery, Reverend Nehemiah Adams.
In general great pains were taken to keep slave families together.
The modern view of Southern Slavery has been really warped by Hollywood etc.
I’m not saying it wasn’t bad, but it was hardly the over-the-top bullshit you see in movies like “Django Unchained”
By slavery, you do mean slavery to the welfare state right?
Exactly, fatherless was lower in the black community vs Whites until 1970s welfare reform.
fatherlessness has been the standard in Africa for hundred of years if not longer. it is their culture.
Jim Crow laws incentivised blacks to adopt and mimic the standards and practices of white people. Once the civil rights movement came along they went back to their old tribal ways.