I could tell ILA, as s/he did me, "After reading your first line, it is clear that you are an uniformed partisan. The rest of your bilge requires no reply." - and that would save me a lot of typing.
But, I will reply a little. The thing about statistics by themselves is they do not often prove cause and effect. Does ILA assume there is some genetic component in a black man's blood that makes him flee after a child is born and a black mother to hang in there raising a family on her own? NO? Then maybe he wants to blame our social safety net instead? Here it gets kind of cloudy, as I try to understand his point. Is it blacks, all minorities or just poor people as against whites and rich people? Until he spits it out, I'm not sure which argument to take up.
I never once claimed that there is a genetic component. You are free to let your biases infer that if it makes you feel comfortable, but it wouldn't make it anymore true. I do put the blame on the "social safety" net as you call it. Remember, what we use nets for. That is to trap animals. The tragedy that is single motherhood has exploded since the advent of your "social safety net". Now you may want to ignore it, that is your choice. But, the facts are there.
It appears to be black single parent households he see as a threat to our society, so I'll just stop there.
No, I see single mother households as a threat to our society. Again, the statistics support my claim. Children from single mother households have a higher incidence of drug abuse, crime, high school drop outs etc. The list goes on and on. You can stay blind to it if you want.
Now what could be different, if it isn't genetics?
How about education in the urban areas where many black people, that generate your statistics, live? I maintain this education system has and is increasingly failing to provide education as a path to good paying main stream jobs. It is struggling amidst high crime rate "hoods" and areas of the city that law enforcement has too often given up on enforcing public safety. Recently in Chicago they closed a number of schools for budget reasons and many parents complained. One reason they complained is that now their children had to cross gang lines and run a longer and more dangerous path just trying to get into the classroom. Once there, the classroom is failing them anyway. And if they manage to hang in there and graduate there are few jobs waiting for them.
It is hilarious that you bitch and moan about me bring up "blacks" and then you go on to list all of these things in black neighborhoods. I might point out as I have on numerous occasions (and has yet to be disputed by anyone factually) these urban areas have two things in common. One, we spend more on education there than just about any other place and they have all been dominated by democrats for a generation or more. Now if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.....its a fucking duck.
Yes, it might be better in such a situation if these kids (as many of them still are) did not have sex or at least were provided THAT education and access. All they are doing is looking for love in all the wrong places. ANY group of ANY genetic background would be the same. My evidence? Because when black children from the same neighborhoods have been put in special academies that actually provide an adequate education, they have blossomed. They attend college and get good jobs at the same rate as white children coming from affluent schools. And, for the purpose of this issue, I would hazard the opinion that their family structure looks exactly as you would expect, ie: an upper class (and I HATE that term) educated two parent family. In fact, based on MY FAMILY, I KNOW this to be the case.
It isn't a question of "might be better". We KNOW it will be better.
This is NOT genetic! Nor is it the fault of the system that is trying to help "after the fact" that so many conservatives complain about.
I never once claimed it was genetic.
Most people of any color or race DON'T decide to have big single parent families just to collect benefits.
Again, I am not arguing whether there is a racial component to that decision. But, it is inarguable that when LBJs welfare system started, he made it economically advantageous for there not to be a father around. More benefits for no daddy. Yes, anyone regardless of color will make that economic decision. Now, did that one thing account for the high rate of single motherhood? Of course not. It was a contributing factor. Other contibuting factors include no fault divorce, the glorifying of single motherhood by hollywood not only on TV and in movies but the Madonna's of the world running around adopting children and showing how "easy" it is for them to be a single mom. Like every other single mom is worth $100 million.
They would much rather be the Cosby family of old TV fame.
You know this how?
This all starts and finishes with education or the lack of a good enough one. All the rest - crime, poverty, etc. is just piling on to the problem so much that it's hard to tell exactly what the ultimate cause it. But, one thing I am sure of it that the victims of the system can't fix the problem on their own. It's not THEIR FAULT.
Yes, it is never anyones fault other than the 1%ers. Everything is their fault
Clean up the crime and provide a GOOD education, add in contraception and good jobs waiting at the end and I predict this whole question would go "poof."
