Problems in the Black Community

This Article was linked in the “Black in the Bay” News Letter.
It’s a very interesting perspective on the supposed problems in black America.

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Author- Robert A Wicks

There are a number of social issues which are of great concern to many black people. Many of us see a number of issues which plague blacks to a more noticeable extent than other minorities and whites. There is substantial poverty among blacks. There are serious problems with crime, and single parenthood is a problem which contributes to the first two. I will attempt to address some of the ones which I find both pressing and telling. We hear many people talking about these issues, describing the problems and recommending solutions. Many times, however, I feel that people miss the underlying causes of these problems, and the rather obvious solutions which make themselves apparent once these causes are discerned.

Government welfare has helped cause more black suffering that just about any other government policy in the past 50 years. I feel that the cultural adaptations blacks made to accommodate slavery made welfare especially devastating. Black men used to be sold up the river. This was a process in which the patriarch of a family would be sold from one plantation to another, breaking up families. Many slave owners had as much respect for the integrity of a black family as a cattle rancher would for the integrity of a bovine family. Single motherhood had always, therefore, been more socially acceptable among blacks. This was an absolute necessity, obviously, and not some indication of some mass failure of black people’s character. After the end of that wretched practice, many women didn’t remarry, as they had no way to tell if their husband was dead or not. This is one reason black women have always had such an obvious role in black economic development. Many black women have always had to work.

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