Correction: In the original draft, I attributed the handbag above to Chanel. My wife promptly contacted me from Ireland and my daughter from Florida to say it was “Coach” and likely a knock off at that. What was I thinking?
In a video already seen more than 3 million times, a smug young Black woman sits behind the wheel of her car and records on her cell phone the stolen items she is stuffing in her Chanel handbag.
“So this is what I stole, okay? They wanted $9 for this. I said, Oh, I don’t got $9.” she says defiantly. “Whether or not you take it, they call that shit free will. I call that shit eminent domain. You know what I’m saying? One thing I learned from the white men, take it.” To offset the loss of her SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), benefits, this soulless Jean Valjean felt more than entitled to take what she wanted.
Sixty years ago, LBJ’s assistant secretary of labor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, saw this lady coming. The future US Senator from New York issued a report in 1965 that predicted legions of such people.
In The Negro Family: The Case for National Action Moynihan told the truth about a phenomenon city dwellers were already seeing in their streets and playgrounds. Despite the “full recognition of their civil rights,” argued Moynihan, Blacks were increasingly discontent. They thought equal opportunity would “produce roughly equal results, as compared with other groups,” but added Moynihan, “This is not going to happen.”
In explaining the primary cause of the already widening achievement gap between Blacks and Whites, Moynihan went where few elected officials have ever dared to go. “The fundamental problem, in which this is most clearly the case, is that of family structure,” Moynihan continued.
“The evidence—not final, but powerfully persuasive—is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling. A middle class group has managed to save itself, but for vast numbers of the unskilled, poorly educated city working class the fabric of conventional social relationships has all but disintegrated.”
As Moynihan made clear, young people from fatherless families could never measure up in the aggregate to kids from two-parent homes. By subsidizing fatherlessness, as SNAP and other such programs have been doing since LBJ, the government was only making the problem worse. If the trend continued, said Moynihan at his most prescient, “There will be no social peace in the United States for generations.”
The report received solid support when circulated within the Johnson administration, but when released publicly in July 1965, President Johnson wilted under fire from the already corrupted civil rights establishment. Johnson cancelled a conference he had scheduled around the idea of family and scolded his staffers for getting him “in this controversy over Moynihan.”
The next political leader of note to address the crisis head on was Barack Obama. Naively, he thought his African roots would give him the freedom to tackle issues that frightened his white colleagues. Silly man.
Obama chose Father’s Day 2008, to make his stand. At a largely Black Chicago church he told the congregants that too many black fathers were missing from “too many homes.” Obama made the argument that conservatives had been making for years, specifically that fatherless children were five times more likely to grow up poor, nine times more likely to drop out of school, and twenty times more likely to get into serious trouble than children who grow up with both parents.
Those absentee fathers, Obama scolded, “have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.”
Leftists, however, were uneasy about Obama giving voice to what one wag called his “inner Cosby,” and no leftist more so than Jesse Jackson. In that Jackson himself had sired a love child, he took Obama’s words personally. A hot mic at a Fox News studio caught Jackson whispering to another Black guest, “See, Barack been, um, talking down to Black people on this faith-based – I wanna cut his nuts out.… Barack – he’s talking down to black people − telling niggers how to behave.”
On saying “cut his nuts out,” Jackson made a sharp slicing motion with his hands. If Johnson feared losing his base, Obama feared losing his, well, balls. Although physically Obama may have kept his, metaphorically he would promptly sacrifice them on the altar of woke. He would never again tell [Black people] how to behave. Instead, at the urging of Jackson and others he retreated to the safe haven of systemic racism, and, as Moynihan foretold, the nation has never recovered.
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The core of any civil society is the family unit. Destroy that unit and civil society falls, exactly like every blue city in the nation. These people are sick, and so very evil.
Never been truer words. Watched it all happen from LBJ forward: broken families with ADC, broken communities and now a whole sector of the country. The Little Red Hen should be required reading as a primer for economics.