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I swear, some of ya’ll would’ve blamed slavery on “the breakdown of the Black family” if you’d gotten the chance...
...White supremacy has always been the enemy of the Black family, because families are economics units, that’s why the most marginalized people in any society tend to have the least stable family lives...
...The hegemony of civil rights imagery has everybody thinking the Kings represented a typical Jim Crow era Black family. Then and now there were many stable, whole Black families at every class level, but, humans are humans and many broke under pressure. Just like now...
...I remember when I was in college, this guy I knew from Chicago told me he wished he could live in the 30s back when people wore suits and acted right. (I’m not joking) I was like, bruh, have you read Native Son?...
...A lot of Black men realized there was no place for them in a world where they were expected to be pack animals, so they drank, gambled, had sex and cut motherfuckers for looking at them funny. Harlem was home to numerous Black criminal empires...
...What’s weird is, none of this is hidden. I already mentioned Native Son, Malcolm ran heroin and weed up and down the eastern seaboard when he was 19 years old, it’s in his autobiography. Malcolm‘s father was an upright, disciplined preacher. The white man murdered him....
... yeah the out of wedlock birth rate among blacks jumped in the 60s, it jumped across society; but even before that the Black rate was astronomically higher than the white one. As society’s general rate went up, ours went up too...
...The family is an economic unit, and if people are economically and socially stressed, that makes it exponentially harder to form and maintain families. It has already been shown that poverty can impede longterm planning, and a starving family is still starving...
...Folks would be served by reading what was written about poor white people historically, particularly in Europe. “The mother works all day to try to feed the children, and then the father walks in drunk, beats her, takes the money and goes back to drinking”…
..Or “The mother prostitutes herself while the children hide under the bed, the children are all expert pickpockets and carry knives.” The White man wants us to think he bears his poverty better than us so we mindlessly attack each other with rabid, moralistic fervor...
...Once I got into an argument with a bigot about London’s East end, he tried to tell me West Indians and Southeast Asians ruined it. I said, I’ve read more than my share of English history and literature, and I’ve yet to find the period when the east end wasn’t a crime hole...
...Samuel Pepys talked shit about the east end in the 17th century, Dickens talked about it in 19th century, Jack London wrote a book about it in 1902 called "People of the Abyss" so who the hell is lying? You or Samuel Pepys?...
...The East India company had to employ armed guards when they unloaded their goods on the east side of London, lest the ravenous rabble make off with it by force. Folks were wild, but the Blacks and Browns didnt show up until 60 years ago...
...Whites have ya'll brainwashed into thinking they just "stiff upper lip" their way through their troubles, so you attack poor folks for not being granite statues. History is the place where all this bullshit goes to die. People need to grow the hell up...
...Nobody ever "married with children" their way out of oppression. It has never happened, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. What happens is, more well off people create norms and mores to facilitate intergenerational wealth transfer, then blame poor people for not measuring up...
...Also, since we always end up coming back to the Moynihan report....Daniel Patrick Moynihan believed that you saved the Black family by putting more money into job training and education. He believed in social welfare programs...
...Moynihan, who got all this "breakdown of the Black family" foolishness started was a liberal who helped create Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty. He didn't walk the streets of urban centers handing out wedding brochures and bibles. But, folks forget that...
...There, I'm sure I've covered everything I need to cover, I'm sure I will never have to return to this topic again.
