• [stock-market-ticker symbols="AAPL;MSFT;GOOG;HPQ;^SPX;^DJI;LSE:BAG" stockExchange="NYSENasdaq" width"100%" palette="financial-light"]

    The Black New Deal: 1) Abolish Welfare 2) Incentivize The Nuclear Family

    July 31, 2020
    16 Comments
    Image via Twitter

    The time for complaints is over. We need action to fix black America. The status quo is unacceptable, and worse, blacks are being manipulated by others to further stoke division. Increasingly, we do not identify as Americans first, but black or white or brown.

    The time for white complaints is over. Hours spent complaining and pointing at black-on-black violence is not productive. Nothing changes. Harping on black foibles and stereotypes only serves to frustrate and enrage both sides. Further, many of the reasons black culture has suffered is due to white "solutions." Soft bigotry at best, outright chattel slavery at worst. I'll address that below. Suffice it to say: being angry with black Americans isn't changing anything for the better.

    Also...

    The time for black complaints is over. Slavery happened in America like it has happened in every culture around the world since the beginning of time. Slavery has been prohibited in the West, and apart from communist China and parts of Egypt, most of the East. Moreover, as recent studies have shown, racial police brutality has declined to the point of statistical insignificance. The raison d'etre for the Black Lives Matter organization is a rounding error. Recent spikes in crime aside, broadly speaking, America has never been safer.

    So why does everything feel worse? For one, media and technology. Mainstream media, citizen journalism, and nonstop social media all contribute to the sense that our racial divide is at the root of all evil. Foreign and domestic agitators also, to be sure. George Soros, the billion dollar Black Lives Matter organization (which funds Democratic candidates through for-profit ActBlue), the DNC, ACLU and SPLC--in short, the usual suspects, propagandizing and profiteering off the pain of an imperfect history, an evolution that, for all its growing pains, resulted in the greatest nation on Earth.

    A brief disclaimer: This is not to disparage black America. To the contrary, I share these ideas here out of a profound frustration and deep hope for a peaceful future. I'm not sure Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of a "colorblind" society is possible, but race should never be used as a cudgel.

    There exists a burgeoning black community that recognizes the ruse, the ugly bargain of welfare for Democrat votes. Yes, blacks are the most loyal voting bloc in the country. Roughly 90% vote blue, but that's slowly changing due to the work of patriots like Thomas Sowell, Candace Owens, CJ Pearson, Terrence Williams, and many others.

    Still, none of the ideas to fix our latest race-based nation-spasm are worth a damn. Worse, they divide us further. Reparations? Statistically and legally impossible, not to mention morally fraught. Defund police? Ha. Address police reform thoughtfully and proportionately when departments accrue too many violations, yes. Defund? That's illogical and dangerous to all--especially blacks, who oppose the idea! Abolish the "carceral state"? Absurd. Look what happened in New York City when a few thousand prisoners were released, allegedly due to COVID concerns. Violent crime has skyrocketed. Prisons exist for a reason.

    First, America must abolish welfare. It's not a new idea. Charles Murray, an academician, discussed it in the early '90s. Conservative ears pricked up. Tim Worstall of Forbes discussed it a decade ago. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) made it part of his winning platform in 2014, when he noted the following:

    “A single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year in total benefits between the health care and the earned income credit and the FoodShare and the low-income housing and what have you...That’s after taxes," Grothman stated, noting the welfare arrangement is "in essence a bribe not to work that hard, or a bribe not to marry somebody with a full-time job,”

    And that's the ugly truth: welfare acts as an impediment to marriage. It's also a drain on the economy. In 2019, welfare programs--not including Medicare--cost taxpayers $364 billion. Divided by roughly 144 million taxpayers in the US, that's over $2,500 per taxpayer on average.

    Welfare Ruined the Black Nuclear Family

    I have repeatedly written about the evils of welfare and its end result: single black families. The raft of Great Society legislation in 1964 was designed to address the very problem it exacerbated. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, author of The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, helped to usher in the "Old Black Deal," a.k.a. "The War On Poverty": welfare, food stamps, and public housing.

    From an earlier CDMedia piece on the same subject:

    Helping a man get back on his feet is a great and noble endeavor. To keep him on the perpetual dole is to take a hostage.

    Put a few other ways, throwing life preservers to people drowning at sea can save lives. Throwing them to folks swimming in a pool is distracting, an invitation to float. Just as the goal of therapy is to end therapy, the goal of welfare is to get people on their feet and back to the dignity of self-supporting work.

    The social safety net is there to catch people. That’s why it’s a net, not a hammock.

    The Great Society was a social experiment gone haywire. The time to abolish it has unquestionably arrived. In its place, we need to advocate for, and yes, provide incentives, for strong black nuclear families.

    A key failing of the new welfare that grew out of Great Society programs is that it rewards more funds to single mothers, a “detail” that Moynihan would later claim to regret. As Edwin Feulner, founder of The Heritage Foundation notes,

    “The War on Poverty created negative incentives. Instead of promoting the growth of healthy families, the welfare system discouraged them. A single mother could receive larger payments from Uncle Sam by remaining single than by marrying the father of her child. Over time, many fatherless children entered the world. The welfare checks showed up month after month, regardless of how their parents spent their days. As these boys and girls grew up without fathers around, they came to regard such households as natural. The social safety net, designed to be a temporary help to the people in need, instead kept them trapped in government dependency.”

    --Ibid.

    All the planning, the politicking, the browbeating--due to a 1964 single-parent family rate of 24%. Of course, Great Society had the opposite effect. The black single-parent rate today is tragic: 72%.

    The result? As Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation notes, children of single-parent families are:

    • More than twice as likely to be arrested for a juvenile crime,[3]
    • Twice as likely to be treated for emotional and behavioral problems,[4]
    • Roughly twice as likely to be suspended or expelled from school,[5] and
    • A third more likely to drop out before completing high school.[6]

    But those are mere statistics. Cold numbers. Scroll through the long thread below. Whoever Mr. Parker is, he makes his point indelicately and seems to have a beef with Nick Cannon--I'm not endorsing any of that. The point is to look at the problem. These acts of violence that degrade our public schools and inner cities often are not reported in mass media. They don't end up in official statistics. They are so common as to be inextricable from black culture. Go to worldstarhiphop.com and bear witness--not just to the ubiquity of black violence, but how onlookers exult over it.

    Those are not the actions of children raised in a home with a present and attentive father. The entitlement of BLM followers, the sense of being owed something--that emotion has, at its core, the pain of familial emptiness. Lack of learned discipline.

    Now consider for a moment: what if even half the energy that went into horribly condescending welfare programs had instead gone to simply incentivize stable black families?

    Reward Stable Families

    The solution doesn't have to be complicated. A tax credit for all families under a certain income level would do the trick. Abolish welfare, and make starting a stable family more economically attractive.

    It's no mistake that BLM is anti-nuclear family. Stability and family values are the natural enemies of Marxism. "Community organizers" need discord to recruit soldiers. As Glenn Stanton points out in an excellent article in the Federalist:

    BLM’s antagonism to the family is glaring. On the organization’s website, Black Lives Matter proclaims, “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”

    Beyond the mistaken assumption that the “nuclear family” is unique to the Western world, their position is profoundly concerning. BLM, as an organization, seeks to dismantle the very institution that mountains of published academic research has consistently demonstrated as most likely to strengthen and empower Black Americans and their children: the traditional, nuclear family.

    Lastly, blacks must advocate for this change. The will to make this monumental shift must come from within the community. No more bespectacled Daniel Patrick Moynihan fiddling with the economic lives of "the Negro family." Black voices must ring loudest in the chorus.

    Abolish welfare. Reward building a family. This foundation must be laid before anything changes. After it is done, in decades henceforth, sanity will return, and "race relations" will simply be...American relations.

    SHARE THIS ARTICLE

    Author

    Court Anderson

  • Subscribe
    Notify of
    guest

    16 Comments
    Inline Feedbacks
    View all comments
    Dr. Far

    Why? America has already wasted trillions of dollars trying to civilize these monsters, and not just in America. You can't fix genetics lol Just send the IQ70 creatures back to their homelands and forget about them. Instead of wasting another ounce of resources on a backward race of hunter-gatherers, focus instead on the races with a future.

    Bjorleif Blank

    And what about the over 70 IQs? If we agree to NOT send them back, we are already almost in agreement, as the 70 IQs are extremely rare.

    And you yourself, are you 100 % First Nationer, or should you also be sent back?

    D3F1ANT

    Why do "we" need to "fix black America"? They're welcome to contribute and integrate into society instead of flaunting self-segregation and disdain for personal responsibly. Getting "on benefits" shouldn't be an 18 year old's right of passage. And so-called "affirmative action" is an insulting slight...not an advantage. Criminality and misogyny should be recognized as they handicaps to normal development that they are and not be lauded in song. I mean come on! Don't rely on the white people you disdain to keep you! Parent your children. It isn't a difficult formula to figure out.

    […] The Black New Deal: 1) Abolish Welfare 2) Incentivize The Nuclear Family […]

    GiveItARest

    I hope these folks can read. Here's the secret to white "oppression":

    1. Get to church.
    2. Get to school.
    3. Get a job.

    The first two are free, and the last one actually pays.

    Neil Johnson

    Well here in Lily white Vermont we have the exact same problem. The big city social programs are killing us. We have ruined families littered across our state, it looks like a Hurricane Irene hitting a yard sale.

    Our DCF (department of Children and Family) profile surely looks the same. It has nothing to do with color of skin, this scurge will ruin any man, woman or child. The abuses, drugs, alcohol, crime....I bet they mirror any inner city.

    Our problem is getting worse not better, in 2014 our state was the leading per capita in addicted births....that's babies coming into the world addicted to hard core drugs.

    A poster above has the right prescription, church, school and job. Guess what Vermont is missing? We have extremely poor churches that don't preach the gospel, our schools are total indoctrination camps...and our job market is pretty abysmal, so much so everyone is leaving the state. Illegal immigrants go to other states for better opportunities....

    It matters not the color of your skin, it's happening here in Vermont. We're a training camp for marxists who have infliltrated our state. How do you think Bernie came to rise in power?

    Neil Johnson

    On thought to equalize things is to equalize them. Child custody should be 50-50, 50% to to the man and 50% go to the women. That would inherently get people working together. It would make all parties involved think harder about the consequences of bringing a life into this world without a nest and stable parents.

    GoyimKing

    Separation is the ONLY solution!!! Let's give blacks their own state(this is what they want), so that WE can finally live our lives in peace and we can have our civilization back. Trying to change black behavior is an exercise in futility. We cant change their DNA. Whites and blacks being forced to exist together is a cruel and insane experiment that does not work and never will work. Separation is THE ONLY SOLUTION!!!

    Alwuhush

    Trying to get blacks to live as nuclear families won't work because virtually no black males these days know how to be husbands to wives and fathers to their children. They never had fathers themselves, as their fathers never had fathers, down the line for the last half century. You can only teach fatherhood by example, not out of a book or by seminar. And how many of them actively seek out training or a career to support a wife and children? Families are a responsibility few black males are capable of taking on after generations of getting "it" for free and walking away from what happens nine months later.

    You also have girls who do not know how to be wives to husbands and proper examples of wives and mothers to their children. They have a child by every man who catches their eye starting at 12 or 14. They do not stay in school, get an education, get training, hold down a job and support the nuclear family. They do not know the definition of "responsible". They are welfare queens having another kid every 18 months and their children view that as normal.

    The Great Society program never should have been. Many knew that then, but we sure know that now. But I doubt anyone in Washington has the stones to end it and tell the welfare slobs in this country the free ride is over, clean up your act and get a job.

    Bob

    Good luck with getting welfare recipients to call for their own dose of tough love lol

    It'd be challenging even if they were capable of higher-thinking

    […] The Black New Deal: 1) Abolish Welfare 2) Incentivize The Nuclear Family […]

    […] The Black New Deal: 1) Abolish Welfare 2) Incentivize The Nuclear Family […]

    pc_PHAGE

    The pill+abortion encourage sexual promiscuity without the consequences.
    The pill+abortion must be banned.
    There can be no nuclear family until they are banned.
    It allows women to enter the workforce and compete for jobs men could use to start families.
    One can see the havoc they have caused since the 1970's.
    "Reproductive Rights" put women's right to destroy their children over the need of society for children.
    A society with not enough children does not have enough future.
    If there were no pill+abortion I am sure there would be no migration crisis in USA or EU.
    What boy wants to marry a slut.
    The inner city Ghettos are the Democrat's Gulag Archipelago.
    BLM/Antifa Black Masks are becoming the equivalent of Mussolini's Black Shirts and Hitler's Brown Shirts.
    The Democrats are encouraging Black violence to keep Black hate hot.
    It encourages racism in both directions and keeps Blacks tied to their Black overlords who are allied to white Democrats.
    The violence today is ostensibly about the Floyd death but it's more about turning Black voters away from Trump.

    […] The Black New Deal: 1) Abolish Welfare 2) Incentivize The Nuclear Family […]

    […] The Black New Deal: 1) Abolish Welfare 2) Incentivize The Nuclear Family […]

    FOLLOW US

  • Subscribe to our evening newsletter to stay informed during these challenging times!!

    ×