JoeB131
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The author brings up a point, and something I’ve been trying to say. How come ALL OF A SUDDEN blacks are going backwards, and now blaming it on whitey? As he points out, in the 1940s, the black OOW birthrate was only 14% - and that was despite much of the black community living within Jim Crow laws, and not allowed to drink at the white fountain, or sit at the white restaurant counter.
So how can angry deniers - who constantly reverts to insults and screeches of “raaaaacist” - explain why blacks are making worse decisions NOW, with 75% of babies born to unwed mothers, when during the era of Jim Crow and true racism, they were overwhemingly part of stable, two-parent homes?
Um, Lisa, the WHITE OOW rate has also increased since the 1940's. And that is with the advent of effective contraceptives and the legalization of abortion.
32% of WHITE kids are born out of wedlock today, compared to 4% in 1952. (It was 22% for blacks.)
As an aside, the 1940's are probably not a good starting point, as most of the available men were conscripted into federal service, and most of the women were working in factories.
So let's review-
Blacks jumped from 22% to 70%. - a 318% increase. Sounds awful
Hispanics jumped from 12% to 57%. - a 475% increase.
White people jumped from 4% fo 32%- an 800% increase!!!!
And this is DESPITE the ready availability of both contraceptives and abortion after the 1970's.. Despite that, the numbers kept climbing.
Why? Because back in 1952, there was a societal expectation that if you knocked a girl up, you dropped out of whatever you were doing and married her and got a job. Today, you have other options. The woman can work. She can get an abortion. She could have used the pill.
Frankly, how many people got locked into awful marriages with women they didn't really care about because society insisted they do so.
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