Why Black Female Dems Will Always Be Angry

How LBJ Doomed KBJ, Michelle, Whoopi and Millions More to Lives of Eternal Gloom

I imagine that when Barack Obama first saw the 12-foot bronze statue of a full bodied black woman glowering at passersby in Times Square, he thought to himself, “Damn! Welcome to my world!”

Thomas J. Price’s piece, titled “Grounded in the Stars,” was installed for a two-month run to much criticism from right and left. Not everyone joined in. Those of us who live in cities knew that Price captured something essential. We get that look everyday and not just from grown women, but from daughters too young to understand their mothers’ frustration, petulance, suppressed rage.

This is a look that neither poverty nor racism produces. Michelle Obama, Whoopi Goldberg, and Ketanji Brown Jackson have no excuse on either count. It is a look that comes from years of being lied to and believing the lies.

President Lyndon Johnson’s assistant secretary of labor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, predicted the phenomenon 60 years ago this July in his unfairly maligned report, “The Negro Family: The Case For National Action.”

Despite the “full recognition of their civil rights,” argued Moynihan, Blacks were increasingly discontent. They were expecting that equal opportunities would “produce roughly equal results, as compared with other groups,” but added Moynihan, “This is not going to happen.” Nor did he think it ever would happen “unless a new and special effort is made.” 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. The evidence—not final, but powerfully persuasive—is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling,” he argued. “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.”

In 1960, “for the first time” as Moynihan pointed out, unemployment numbers declined, but the number of new welfare cases rose. This seemingly freakish pattern repeated itself in 1963 and again in 1964. More jobs no longer meant fewer people dependent on government assistance. This unwelcome development put pressure on government resources, but that was a minor problem compared to the damage done to family and community stability.

“The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow,” wrote Moynihan at his most prescient. “If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.” Right he was about that. “No Justice, No Peace” indeed!

The report received solid support when circulated within the Johnson administration, but when released publicly in July 1965, Johnson wilted under fire from civil rights activists who had already turned their cause into a racket. The craven Johnson cancelled a conference he had scheduled around the idea of family and scolded his staffers for getting him “in this controversy over Moynihan.”

For the next forty years, Democrats buried the truth, insisting that the growing income inequality among races was due to systemic racism, not family breakdown. Even successful black women clung to this fiction to rationalize the slights and setbacks that all free people face.

In June 2008, in a feint to the center, presidential candidate Barack Obama did something uncharacteristic. He told the truth about racial inequality. In a particularly bold move, he scolded a large black congregation during a Father’s Day sermon at a Chicago church for allowing the black family to collapse.

Obama made the traditionally conservative argument 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. Obama leaned particularly hard on the absentee fathers, too many of whom “have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men.”

No sooner did Obama scold these baby daddies than one of them, the more authentic than thou Jesse Jackson, threatened on a hot mic “to cut [Obama’s] nuts off.” Chastised, Obama quickly retreated to his fictions, finding it much easier to fix blame on white America than to fix problems within the black community.

White or black, the single mother bears much more of the burden of a broken home than the absent father. On “The View” recently, to show her solidarity with her oppressed sisters, Whoopi Goldberg compared their plight to that of the women of Iran. Yes, Iran. “They used to just keep hanging black people,” said Goldberg."It is the same.”

Despite her spectacularly privileged life, Michelle Obama uses her podcast largely to spout grievances. "Yes, I am angrier than my white friends,” she conceded. And on the Supreme Court last week, Ketanji Brown Jackson shocked her fellow judges with what scholar Jonathan Turley cited as “histrionics and … hysteria.”

Alas, there is no remedy around the corner. In 2024, 92 percent of black women voted for Kamala Harris. In the immediate future, party leaders will reinforce all necessary lies to lock in that vote. If Black men are wising up, women are not. Rich or poor, they find too much solace in suffering, even if embellished or imagined.

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