Pretty sad but factually correct. Leftist policies have embedded the "we'll have them voting democrat for the next 100 years" through their circular destruction of family and handouts to perpetuate the rot.

When I grew up in the 50s I went to school with white and black students. Everyone I knew had two parents at home. Anyone who was "on the dole" (on welfare) was ashamed to admit it and determined to get off. There were no knives or guns in school (on Chicago's west side) because even a minor fight between students meant being disciplined by your parents when you got home. Families could survive on one income. We were poor compared to what we all have today, but few complained. No one demanded that the government confiscate money from the Rockefellers and give it to us. Then the deep state killed JFK, MLK, and RFK... and everything started going down hill.

There's a reason for those signs at the zoo & other animal areas... Do not feed the wildlife, they become dependent on it.

LBJ said that they can't receive welfare with a man in the house. The fathers tearfully left. I grew up in a Black neighborhood. Two parent families, mostly Catholic & Republican. Poor, but happy. Then the Dems got ahold of them.

This is spot on & it's only getting worse by allowing no cash bail, laws like NY's Raise the Age law raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18, & now discussions of "crimes of poverty" being forgiven. No accountability. Lives of crime start early many 1 parent households.

Same for white children and I blame welfare for separating men from their families- Make it impossible to get help if a man is in the home- sad and sickening

Thank FDR and LBJ for all of the excess early deaths in the black community because of their social policies.

White kids are now suffering the same result of our welfare state. We need a new plan

LBJ said to Blacks, you don't need no daddies. You got uncle sam. Big mistake.

ThanQ Wayne for dropping some Truth Bombs for us!!🙏❤️ I love Thomas Sowell...A true Patriot!! Profound Author &Scholar.💯🇺🇲🔥👼

That's exactly what it was meant to do...that and keep them voting for Democrats.

The state refused welfare if a man was in the house. Single mothers with multiple children sired by multiple men became normal because that was what the rules created. Not something liberals like to hear.

The good old "Great Society"! Thank you, LBJ!!

Most Interesting….. Do tell… The 🔵, They took over Generations of Black Opportunities for work. Then for years if the Women were getting Welfare the Male parent was not allowed to live with the family. Hence the beginning of the One Parent black Households. Just plain wrong.

Destroyed the family all across America. One of the first steps in bringing in communism. Seems to be working !

Thomas Sowell should be a mandatory course in every grade

A really smart guy, @Shipwreckedcrew, said; "The Blue State model of having a permanently dependent underclass is built on illegal immigrants." That is true now, but it wasn't always that way. In the 1960s Democrats began construction of their new plantations. They built them with "urban renewal" and "low income housing." They paid a certain class to live there with welfare and food stamps. Most, but not all of that class were Blacks. They called it the "War on Poverty." Then Democrats erected walls around the plantations to keep their new slave class in. Walls made out of the despair of drugs, of schools that don't teach, of crime that's not policed, and of the deflective indoctrination that 'systemic racism' was behind it. These new plantations we called "inner cities," because it sounded so much nicer than ghettos. The crop of these plantations? Votes. But the Democrats made a mistake when their systemic racism forced the adoption of that racist invention of Planned Parenthood, abortion. Their slaves used it. Not enough slave babies were being born. And because of the inner city crime and drugs, more slave young were dying before they reproduced, before their ballots could be harvested. As time went on Democrat policies were becoming increasingly unpopular outside the plantations, and the slave population wasn't growing fast enough to maintain Democrat Party power. So Democrats began importing new slaves. So desperate was their need they didn't bother to make them legal immigrants. They didn't care if they were law-abiding, sex offenders, or violent gang members. Indeed, any and all of their illegality was another wall around the plantation. Now, once again, a Republican President is trying to end the Democrats' slavery machine. And the Democrats, just as in 1860, are going to war to save their power and their wealth engine.

Democrats led by Lyndon B. Johnson!

I so admire this man. He is one of the giants of our country. A gift from GOD to humanity. His basic objective is the pursuit and unwavering support of truth, in its purest form.

One generation of the welfare state created by the demonrats!

Never looked at it that way. But true. Very true. And sad. A kid needs both.

How this BRILLIANT man hasn't received MULTIPLE Presidential Medals of Freedom, I'll never know. Mr. Sowell should be revered as a National Treasure!! "Everything the Left touches, it destroys." - Dennis Prager

All by design, with convincing spin. Like the dealer, promising bliss and offering a free first hit.

It was intentional by the Democrat Party in order to create a dependency class of voters.

Thank you Lyndon Johnson. That’s said sarcastically btw!

Democrats wrote the Jim Crow Laws and replaced them with the Single Parent Democrat Plantation.

So obvious, a third grader can connect those dots @nytimes