Daniel Patrick Moynihan Was Right About The Black Family

Daniel Patrick Moynihan was right about the black family. "Moynihan highlighted troubling cultural trends among inner-city blacks, with a special focus on the increasing number of fatherless homes. ... History has proved that Moynihan was onto something. When the report was released, about 25% of black children and 5% of white children lived in a household headed by a single mother. During the next 20 years the black percentage would double and the racial gap would widen. Today more than 70% of all black births are to unmarried women, twice the white percentage. For decades research has shown that the likelihood of teen pregnancy, drug abuse, dropping out of school and many other social problems grew dramatically when fathers were absent." Jason L. Riley in The Wall Street Journal.

Alan: Like much of "what's wrong with America" the roots lie in the slave-holding South.

Slave Marriages

http://spartacus-educational.com/USASmarriage.htm

The Civil War

Ken Burns
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Civil_War_%28TV_series%29

Alan: Several years ago, I attended a talk by UNC-Chapel Hill Public Health Professor John Hatch who mentioned that all four grandparents were born into slavery. In one of his ancestral families the children were auctioned off in a single day. Knowing that the new owners would remove them to distant plantations - with no hope of family reunion - a bereaved daughter committed suicide within hours of her sale.

To think that this heritage - still burningly alive in human memory - can be transcended in a few generations is more Pharisaic than the good church-goers whom Yeshua railed against.

"Yeshua Excoriates Fellow Pharisees"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/yeshua-excoriates-fellow-pharisees-woe.html

Lynching In America Was A Form Of Terrorism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/lynching-was-form-of-terrorism.html

Christian Defense Of Slavery Preached From The Pulpit

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/02/christian-defense-of-slavery-preached.html

The Chief Difference Between ISIS And The Inquisition

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-chief-difference-between-isis-and.html