There’s a few things I’ll say here. First the essence of genuine Conservatism is individual responsibility not big government or collectivism. Regarding the statistics I posted the most prominent one, which has a high probability of leading to all the others, is being born to a single parent in particularly one who is living in poverty. In the year 2020 we are still looking at roughly 70% of black children being born to single parents. So why is that still the case?
…two-parent black families are rarely poor. Only 8 percent of black married-couple families live in poverty. Among black families in which both the husband and wife work full time, the poverty rate is under 5 percent. Poverty in black families headed by single women is 37 percent.
The undeniable truth is that neither slavery nor Jim Crow nor the harshest racism has decimated the black family the way the welfare state has.
From earlier in the article:
“Children from fatherless homes are likelier to drop out of high school, die by suicide, have behavioral disorders, join gangs, commit crimes, and end up in prison. They are also likelier to live in poverty-stricken households.”
In the inner city I grew up in I went to a small private K-8 school which was ethnically diverse. The valedictorian of our class was a black boy who I reconnected with on Facebook a few years back. He was doing very well for himself in some kind of tech company. One of my neighbors is a black couple, the husband’s a lawyer. His daughter is currently at MIT. His son is in college as well, I believe he wants to get into the FBI. Not to shabby. He worked hard to get where he is at and so did his kids.
Yep, those liberal policies and leadership take a looooooong time to develop. Luckily it doesn’t take that much time for those politicians to amass all that wealth.
That’s one of the big hypocrisies of the left. They complain over and over again about poverty in the US yet essentially want to have a functionally open border so that millions of impoverished migrants can flow into the country year after year. Like that is the answer to fixing poverty here.