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Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
Iconoclastic you bring up some very good points...and so did President Bush in his address to the Urban League...its funny how since he made some very good points..no one really wants to respond or talk about it. Our community is famous for making excuses for our shortcomings and blaming everybody else except ourselves. Its but so much a government policy can do i.e. NO Child left behind..when our families are not taking care of business at home. You want to know why OUR children are being left behind???? (Here comes my Soap Box)
*Because 70% of all black children are born out of wedlock
*Because 62% of black families with children are headed by a single parent
*Because 85% of black children do not live in a home with their fathers
*Because Only 15%-20% of black children born today will grow up with two parents until age 16.
* Because Over 80% of long term child poverty occurs in broken or never married homes.
*Because Black men in America engage in polygamous relationships 3 and 1/2 times that of White or Hispanic.
* Because "The Black Family has crumbled more in the last 30 years than it did the entire 14 decades since slavery" - Dr. Julian Hare, Dir. - San Francisco Black Think Tank.
****Stats taken from: http://www.saveus.org/
I've said this before, Its not about party, ...I just think it's sickening that the black community has so much allegiance to a party that in my opinion does more to add to the problems than solve them.
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So what has the Republican party done for blacks? What have the conservatives done to EASE our problems? You're right to say the Democrats have taken us for granted. But voting Republican over democrat is like leaving the plantations for the LYNCH party next door. It pains me to hear people talk about voting for a party THAT HAS DONE NOTHIGN FOR THEM and in some cases voted to HURT them. Bush made some good points (that's debatable) but until he puts those points into ACTION, it's more lip service then anything. To continue, how come these "points" didn't jump out during his first 4 years of office.
This is why we need a third or maybe 4th party in this country to let the conservatives know that they just can't depend on the racist south and the Democrats need to know the BLACK VOte isnt' theirs for granted.