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Notes from the Under Dog L.'s avatar

Indeed, all the opportunities are right there in front of them. But it's so much more satisfying, apparently, to continue to obligate other people to fix them, instead of fixing themselves.

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Michelle Dostie's avatar

It was Johnson’d Great Society that impoverished black families in the late 60’s by making regulations that made the government the source of money for mothers, breaking up intact families. In decades prior, blacks were better off financially, not impoverished, as we saw in later decades.

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Notes from the Under Dog L.'s avatar

This should be obvious to everyone; I witnessed this growing up, and its devastation, and yet the people with the right opinions keep looking the other way, as if disenfranchising black men by giving money to black women to have children without them was somehow a good thing?

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