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Ladies, thanks for the dialog!
Since the horse is already out of the barn, you are not going to get 75%of young Black men back into a house with a responsible father. So instead of anti-welfare diatribes, what is the Black community to do?
As a whole, I am pessimistic. We have let things go too far for too long. We have compromised our morals at the altar of liberalism and paternalism. We have abdicated control of our daily lives to a system that does not honor the traditions of the once strong Black family. A Black man sees no need for his presence in a home. In essence, he sees himself as quite disposable. That is why failure and fatalism is such a big part of our culture. Young girls see that it is inevitable that they will end up pregnant and boys see incarceration as a rite of passage.
I'm not so sure that a flood this huge can be stemmed. In the name of more government handouts, we let control of our lives and communities slip into the hands of poverty pimps and politicians, now we can't do anything for ourselves. We can't even raise our own children, let alone educate them. I hate when the self-righteous finger pointers say "what good are fraternities, what are you doing for the community?" Our manpower and resources are stretched thin. We simply have too many people that need help. We are overwhelmed and we have been partners in our own decimation.
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