Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
... and there's a direct correlation between the War on Drugs, the mass incarceration of black males, and the breakdown of the black family.

We've done them no favors. This is not to excuse the dysfunction of black culture in America, but they didn't get there by themselves.

Ending the War on Drugs would be the sanest thing to do, so obviously we won't do it.
The percentage of unwed mothers and the proliferation of single-parent families have surged across the board since 1960. It isn't the breakdown of the black family, but of the entire concept of the nuclear family. More than half of all women having children before the age of 30 are doing so without benefit of marriage.

Has the black family been torn to pieces in the wake of the Great Society -- yes. But you could make an argument that things have worsened on this issue even more among whites and hispanics, given their 1960 baseline on these issues when compared to Americans of African descent.


Panzer:

Xi' specificied "ethnicity" -- a term far more specifically linked to culture. YOU were the one who tossed out the racist jibe. Tell me, are you still hanging on to your copy of "The Protocols of Zion" or keeping your copies of Lenz and Fischer's stuff handy?

On some issues you make a good point or two, then you "balance" it out with vile excrement like that posted above. Loathsome.