Give a man a fish... he eats for a day.
Give a man a welfare check, some cheap wine, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's...
he votes democrat for a lifetime.
Here's an article by Thomas Sowell.
the disintegration of the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of government-imposed discrimination in the Jim Crow era, but began coming apart in the wake of the expansion of the liberal welfare state and its accompanying social dogmas.
?White-Black Disparity in Income Narrowed in 80?s, Census Shows.?
median net worth of whites was 10 times the median net worth of blacks in 1988, the last year of the Reagan administration, the ratio was
19-to-1 (1.9 times) in 2009,Unemployment among black 16- and 17-year-old males was 12 percent back in 1950. Yet unemployment rates among black 16- and 17-year-old males has not been less than 30 percent for any year since 1970 ? and has been over 40 percent in some of those years.
Not only was unemployment among blacks in general lower before the liberal welfare-state policies expanded in the 1960s, rates of imprisonment of blacks were also lower then, and most black children were raised in two-parent families. At one time, a higher percentage of blacks than whites were married and working.
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