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Originally Posted by saltine
This did not destroy black communities everywhere. That was the great society
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3 year old post, still 100% accurate. Well done.
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Originally Posted by robertbrianbush
So a safety net to help them destroyed them? Nope, that's right wing bs.
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Great Society is not a "safety net" it is a way of life that subsidizes unwed pregnancy and fatherless households.
When you pay poor people to have kids out of wedlock, surprise, that's exactly what they're going to do for a living.
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The American economists Walter E. Williams and Thomas Sowell argue that the significant expansion of federal welfare under the Great Society programs beginning in the 1960s contributed to the destruction of African American families.[58][59] Sowell has argued: "The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa...mily_structure
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