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Moynihan was snubbed for writing the report and liberals and conservatives alike have since been very afraid to comment on the state of black families in the US
by maceo 11y ago
Moynihan was snubbed for writing the report and liberals and conservatives alike have since been very afraid to comment on the state of black families in the US.
The black family unit in the US has been under attack for over 500 years. During slavery, blacks were prohibited from marrying and relationships between father, mother, and children were torn apart at the slaveowners whim. Slavery was still in existence 150 years ago, and it existed on US soil for 350 years prior. Reconstruction offered brief solace, but then came Jim Crow, white terrorist organizations like the KKK, a so-called social welfare system that overzealously institutionalized and split apart poor families, the war on drugs/crime, Clinton era cuts to welfare that disproportionally affected working single mothers and poor children of color, etc.
- selimthegrim 11y agoIf you ever needed a reminder on institutionalized Jim Crow let these fit the bill for a good long while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Freedom_Died:_The_Colfax_Massacre,_the_Supreme_Court,_and_the_Betrayal_of_Reconstruction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Freedom_Died:_The_Colfa... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot https://books.google.com/books?id=ISoAAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT62&ots=xQ3DvKi9fv&dq=1927%20flood%20bye%20bye%20blackbird&pg=PT62#v=onepage&q=1927%20flood%20bye%20bye%20blackbird&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=ISoAAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT62&ots=...