Originally Posted by
sanicom3205
I hear your point, but I'm saying that having children out of wedlock could be caused by other societal issues rather than being a cause itself. Why do certain communities have a higher rate of single parents? Surely there is a cause, and the cause is not race (I am not implying that is what you are saying). These issues are complex and we cannot point a finger at one statistic and call it a day.
Did you know that people who eat oatmeal every morning have a higher chance of dying in the next ten years than those who don't?
Of course there are many factors. Digging deep into statistics does provide some suggestions. It has become generational so one would have to go back to look for the factors in place when it started. This is why I point to the fact that blacks were less likely to have out of wedlock births before the expansion of Welfare. Blacks teens were more likely to have a job than white teens prior to 1950. There is meaning in those statistics. They are numbers but the lives behind the numbers were affected in a very negative way.
I think the original passage of the minimum wage was probably well intentioned but it did irreparable harm to the very people it was intended to help. With LBJ and his pushing of the welfare state there is a good bit of evidence contained within the conversations caught on the White House tapes that he knew exactly what he was doing. I'm paraphrasing but he made references to buying N votes for a hundred years with the nomination of Thurgood Marshall. In fact Democrats being racists and mostly trying to retain their power and racist views the Civil Rights Act would not have passed with out Republicans supporting it with 80% of their vote.
Who is more racist? The person who says you are capable of anything you want to do and here are the resources to get it done, or the person who says buddy the deck is stacked against you so don't even try?