Maggie's Farm

It is tragic. It's the fallout from the poverty programs of the 1960s. It's an object-lesson in the difference between intended results and outcomes.

Inestimable harm was done to Black men when the government gave incentives to young Black women to have children without a father in the home. It destroyed the Black family. Black men were no longer needed. Thus, the growth of the aimless underclass that populates our largest cities, the guys who run around shooting each other because they have no purpose in life.

Before the 60s, Black men led their households and provided their kids with leadership and values. They were very entrepreneurial and cultivated neighborhoods like Bronzeville in Chicago and Harlem in NY, full of a variety and depth of institutions: restaurants, laundries, banks, law firms, night clubs, etc. Working in Chicago for many years, I had occasion to meet families of African-Americans---mostly from the South Side---consisting of generations of attorneys, judges, physicians, CPAs, etc.---I had a client who was one of 5 brothers who were all physicians, like their father and grandfather before them. The sister was only an attorney because she couldn't stand the sight of blood.

That all went away in the 60s. Upon consideration, you would be hard-pressed to think of a better way to invalidate an entire race's existence, and create a moral hazard, than to relieve them of any dignifying responsibility, sign them up for the dole, lock them in a public housing project, and throw away the key. If that isn't a vote of 'No Confidence', then nothing is.

I can see why many Black men are so angry.

Most of the high-rise housing projects in Chicago were populated solely with Blacks. I'm aware of only one---a single-story--in a decent neighborhood on the north side, that had some White people living in it. Blacks were warehoused in these prison-like fortresses, and innocent and law-abiding people were trapped with some very troubled people, indeed. They should never have been built.

I once passed by the old Henry Horner homes (since razed) on the way to a sports event, and I have never---never---seen anything like it. If you want to imagine Hell on earth, that might have been it. If you lived there, or had a loved one living there, you would never stop crying. I'm not aware of any analogous situation with poor whites.

Perfect evidence that Blacks need the Left even less than Whites need it---Marxism is self-defeating. It's a nihilistic philosophy based on a delusional idea of human nature and and a one-way ticket to nowhere.

I saw a nature documentary recently on National Geographic about what happened to young male elephants on a reserve in Africa after poachers murdered the adult males for their tusks. Elephants are incredibly intelligent and usually have complex, disciplined family structures where order is maintained by the older members. In the absence of adult males to model themselves on, the young males grouped together with other young males and ran amok in gangs, murdering female elephants for entertainment.

The importance of a father in a child's life can never be underestimated.

Those are all effects---not causes. We're more than 50 years into this disaster.

Yes. Stop voting for Democrats.