This was a phenomenal article by the great Kendall Qualls of the amazing organization Take Charge Minnesota. On the 60th anniversary of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's monumental The Negro Family: The Case for National Action report, it is time for us to recommit ourselves a nation to helping rebuild the black family and reverse the negative trends that currently plague the black community. Senator Moynihan was demonized as a racist at the time for this essential report. However, what the public didn't know at the time was that Senator Moynihan was very passionate about this issue and wrote this report because his father left the family when he was just a boy. His purpose was not to defame the black community but to warn the black community and the Johnson administration. But he was dismissed a hateful bigot and ignored. But just a decade later he was proven to have been right. The 1970s saw the collapse of the black family in this nation. The welfare programs of the Great Society led to black men abdicating their responsibility as husbands and fathers, women being incentivized to marry the government and led a generation of young black men falling into a life of crime without a male role model to teach them how to act like a man and guide them through life. This in turn lead to these young men make poor decisions in their personal life and sexual activity thus perpetuating the same toxic cycle for decades upon decades. None of the major "civil rights" organizations like BLM, the NAACP, the National Urban League, Bryan Stevenson's Civil Rights Initiative, etc. have no plan to address this crisis in black America. That won't even acknowledge it's a problem. The NAACP, the SCLC, the National Urban League, etc. are once prestigious organizations that don't really fight for black Americans, they have become left-wing advocacy groups and shills for the Democratic Party. The Black Church must undergo a massive reformation. God's word is apolitical and nonpartisan! It its totally improper to insert Democratic politics into the good word! I'm all for this initiative! I wish Free Black Thought much luck with it! Here are some ideas I had to combat these problems within black America. 1) Teaching comprehensive sexual education and fertility education to black children from a young age. 2) Education and jobs programs. 3) A higher minimum wage. 4) The implementation of universal healthcare. 4) Private initiatives to assist black families and classes for black boys and men on fatherhood and raising children. 5) Building more affordable housing. 6) Investing in the inner cities. 7) Comprehensive reform of the public education system and implementing school choice. 8) Criminal justice and police reform. 9) Black churches doing outreach programs to troubled black youth. 10) College scholarships for talented black children.
"Abortion: black women account for 38.4% of all abortions, the highest percentage of any ethnic group and vastly disproportion to their share of population, given that black women of child-bearing age represent roughly 4.5% of all Americans."
You should consider correcting this. The relevant comparison for 38.4% is the number of black women of child-bearing age as a percent of the total number of child-bearing women.
Sorry, writing as an OCD Statistician. And that's assuming you can't get pregnant women and abortions by race; i.e., the percentage of pregnant black woman who have abortions versus the percentage of pregnant women who have abortions.
If black America could just (collectively, even slightly) rejuvenate family bonds and vote less uniformly (regardless of your political leanings, this would increase the political leverage of black America) the improvements could be enormous, for everyone. Both of those changes would have second- and third-order effects which would lift the fortunes of many.
Unfortunately, social dysfunction among black populations is not a problem political bodies, however constituted, can do anything to ameliorate let alone solve.
I am certainly praying for your success in this initiative, Brother. 🙏
This was a phenomenal article by the great Kendall Qualls of the amazing organization Take Charge Minnesota. On the 60th anniversary of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's monumental The Negro Family: The Case for National Action report, it is time for us to recommit ourselves a nation to helping rebuild the black family and reverse the negative trends that currently plague the black community. Senator Moynihan was demonized as a racist at the time for this essential report. However, what the public didn't know at the time was that Senator Moynihan was very passionate about this issue and wrote this report because his father left the family when he was just a boy. His purpose was not to defame the black community but to warn the black community and the Johnson administration. But he was dismissed a hateful bigot and ignored. But just a decade later he was proven to have been right. The 1970s saw the collapse of the black family in this nation. The welfare programs of the Great Society led to black men abdicating their responsibility as husbands and fathers, women being incentivized to marry the government and led a generation of young black men falling into a life of crime without a male role model to teach them how to act like a man and guide them through life. This in turn lead to these young men make poor decisions in their personal life and sexual activity thus perpetuating the same toxic cycle for decades upon decades. None of the major "civil rights" organizations like BLM, the NAACP, the National Urban League, Bryan Stevenson's Civil Rights Initiative, etc. have no plan to address this crisis in black America. That won't even acknowledge it's a problem. The NAACP, the SCLC, the National Urban League, etc. are once prestigious organizations that don't really fight for black Americans, they have become left-wing advocacy groups and shills for the Democratic Party. The Black Church must undergo a massive reformation. God's word is apolitical and nonpartisan! It its totally improper to insert Democratic politics into the good word! I'm all for this initiative! I wish Free Black Thought much luck with it! Here are some ideas I had to combat these problems within black America. 1) Teaching comprehensive sexual education and fertility education to black children from a young age. 2) Education and jobs programs. 3) A higher minimum wage. 4) The implementation of universal healthcare. 4) Private initiatives to assist black families and classes for black boys and men on fatherhood and raising children. 5) Building more affordable housing. 6) Investing in the inner cities. 7) Comprehensive reform of the public education system and implementing school choice. 8) Criminal justice and police reform. 9) Black churches doing outreach programs to troubled black youth. 10) College scholarships for talented black children.
"Abortion: black women account for 38.4% of all abortions, the highest percentage of any ethnic group and vastly disproportion to their share of population, given that black women of child-bearing age represent roughly 4.5% of all Americans."
You should consider correcting this. The relevant comparison for 38.4% is the number of black women of child-bearing age as a percent of the total number of child-bearing women.
Sorry, writing as an OCD Statistician. And that's assuming you can't get pregnant women and abortions by race; i.e., the percentage of pregnant black woman who have abortions versus the percentage of pregnant women who have abortions.
If black America could just (collectively, even slightly) rejuvenate family bonds and vote less uniformly (regardless of your political leanings, this would increase the political leverage of black America) the improvements could be enormous, for everyone. Both of those changes would have second- and third-order effects which would lift the fortunes of many.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/40-acres-and-a-mule
Unfortunately, social dysfunction among black populations is not a problem political bodies, however constituted, can do anything to ameliorate let alone solve.