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Posted on 11/21/14 at 3:40 pm to Tigerstudent08
Posted on 11/21/14 at 3:40 pm to Tigerstudent08
The black family didn't really begin falling apart until the late 60s. The subsequent 20 years tore it apart due to a combination of LBJ's social reforms, the drug trade beginning to really target young black males in the 70s and Reagan's drug enforcement policies.
The result was an entire generation of young AA males either strung out on drugs, dealing them or both, a system of welfare which allowed them to sustain themselves in such a lifestyle and a drug policy that disproportionately targeted and punished them. The effects then propagated to future generations who simply did as they saw their parents do.
The biggest thing we could do to help black America today is not to give them more financial aid but to drastically reform our drug enforcement policy.
The result was an entire generation of young AA males either strung out on drugs, dealing them or both, a system of welfare which allowed them to sustain themselves in such a lifestyle and a drug policy that disproportionately targeted and punished them. The effects then propagated to future generations who simply did as they saw their parents do.
The biggest thing we could do to help black America today is not to give them more financial aid but to drastically reform our drug enforcement policy.
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Posted on 11/21/14 at 3:45 pm to Roger Klarvin
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the drug trade beginning to really target young black males in the 70s
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a drug policy that disproportionately targeted and punished them
If young black males were primary users, why it wouldn't they be the primary focus of drug curtailment efforts?
Posted on 11/21/14 at 4:07 pm to Roger Klarvin
quote:The Moynihan Report was written in 1965.
The black family didn't really begin falling apart until the late 60s.
Posted on 11/22/14 at 1:26 am to Roger Klarvin
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The black family didn't really begin falling apart until the late 60s. The subsequent 20 years tore it apart due to a combination of LBJ's social reforms, the drug trade beginning to really target young black males in the 70s and Reagan's drug enforcement policies.
The result was an entire generation of young AA males either strung out on drugs, dealing them or both, a system of welfare which allowed them to sustain themselves in such a lifestyle and a drug policy that disproportionately targeted and punished them. The effects then propagated to future generations who simply did as they saw their parents do.
The biggest thing we could do to help black America today is not to give them more financial aid but to drastically reform our drug enforcement policy.
Nice post, Roger. I agree with the summation. My generation was put in the cross hairs of the WOD. Many guys I grew up with not around anymore. The thug life claimed them.
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