Comments on: President Obama: Please encourage blacks to get married, settle down as families http://iperceive.net/president-obama-please-encourage-blacks-to-get-married-settle-down-as-families/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:16:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: April 38 http://iperceive.net/president-obama-please-encourage-blacks-to-get-married-settle-down-as-families/comment-page-1/#comment-10196 April 38 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:17:35 +0000 http://iperceive.net/?p=2718#comment-10196 There are other contributing factors that need to be addressed, across the board in every ethnic community. One of those that screams for attention is the pornography question -- including the widespread endorsement of immorality and illegitimacy by Hollywood. Ingrid Bergman, one of the greatest film actresses ever, was driven out of Hollywood in the 1950s because she had an illegitimate child. Today, Hollywood heaps praise on unmarried parents. No one ventures to disapprove of any behavior, no matter how outrageous or irresponsible. It is a message that harms children all over the nation and the world. Moral Americans should boycott films and television shows that promote immorality, including those made by actors and actresses who live that life-style. Sorry if this sounds draconian to libertines, but civilizations die from the toxins this kind of mindset generates. There are other contributing factors that need to be addressed, across the board in every ethnic community. One of those that screams for attention is the pornography question — including the widespread endorsement of immorality and illegitimacy by Hollywood.
Ingrid Bergman, one of the greatest film actresses ever, was driven out of Hollywood in the 1950s because she had an illegitimate child. Today, Hollywood heaps praise on unmarried parents. No one ventures to disapprove of any behavior, no matter how outrageous or irresponsible.
It is a message that harms children all over the nation and the world. Moral Americans should boycott films and television shows that promote immorality, including those made by actors and actresses who live that life-style.
Sorry if this sounds draconian to libertines, but civilizations die from the toxins this kind of mindset generates.

]]> By: Gravitas http://iperceive.net/president-obama-please-encourage-blacks-to-get-married-settle-down-as-families/comment-page-1/#comment-10190 Gravitas Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:04:40 +0000 http://iperceive.net/?p=2718#comment-10190 Kurt, your conclusions above are right on. Black families have deteriorated directly in proportion to government welfare programs, which largely removed the responsibility of black men to provide for their children. Johnson's War on Poverty, begun in his term of office (1964), has cost the nation far more than the $11 trillion spent on welfare since this misguided program began. Quote from Linda Chavez, July 21, 2007, NYP: "The poor are disproportionately made up of women and their children. Poverty rates for families headed by a single white woman with children under 18 were 25.3 percent in 2005; for similarly constituted black families, the rate was a shocking 42 percent. But for married couple families, the comparable rate for whites was just 6.1 percent, and for black families it was only 8.3 percent." The contrast could not be more clear. Marriage largely resolves the poverty issue. Walter Williams ("Blaming the Past") quotes Herbert Gutman, author of The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom: 1750-1925. He "found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the children had the same mother and father. In New York City, in 1925, 85 percent of kin-related black households were double-headed. In fact, "Five in six children under the age of six lived with both parents." Williams concludes that the current problems in the black community have "nothing to do with a so-called legacy of slavery, unless we're willing to say that slavery has a delayed reaction of four or five generations." But government-sponsored *welfare incentives* have almost everything to do with illegitimacy and absenteeism among fathers. And thereby virtually everything to do with black, inner-city crime rates. Kurt, your conclusions above are right on.

Black families have deteriorated directly in proportion to government welfare programs, which largely removed the responsibility of black men to provide for their children. Johnson’s War on Poverty, begun in his term of office (1964), has cost the nation far more than the $11 trillion spent on welfare since this misguided program began.

Quote from Linda Chavez, July 21, 2007, NYP: “The poor are disproportionately made up of women and their children. Poverty rates for families headed by a single white woman with children under 18 were 25.3 percent in 2005; for similarly constituted black families, the rate was a shocking 42 percent. But for married couple families, the comparable rate for whites was just 6.1 percent, and for black families it was only 8.3 percent.” The contrast could not be more clear. Marriage largely resolves the poverty issue.

Walter Williams (“Blaming the Past”) quotes Herbert Gutman, author of The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom: 1750-1925. He “found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the children had the same mother and father. In New York City, in 1925, 85 percent of kin-related black households were double-headed. In fact, “Five in six children under the age of six lived with both parents.” Williams concludes that the current problems in the black community have “nothing to do with a so-called legacy of slavery, unless we’re willing to say that slavery has a delayed reaction of four or five generations.”

But government-sponsored *welfare incentives* have almost everything to do with illegitimacy and absenteeism among fathers. And thereby virtually everything to do with black, inner-city crime rates.

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