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Slavery will hurt anyone’s ego, but I don’t think that it is responsible for the high rate of ‘fatherless’ children in the black community. First of all, most black men do not have children all over the place. Second, the rate of kids being born to single moms is increasing in just about every demographic. Although single parent households are much more common amoung blacks than whites. There are many reasons for this, but one of the root causes has to do with wage discrimination and the welfare system. At the time that the welfare system was introduced, most blacks in the US lived at or below poverty level. Although people worked long, hard hours, they did not have access to the jobs that paid enough to support their families. This wage and employment discrimination did terrible things to the men’s egos. Think about it: You’re working your fingers to the bone everyday, yet you can’t afford to buy your kids the basic necessities, let alone the occasional treat. Then came the welfare system, which is one of those things that started out as a decent idea, but the government screwed it up. Women with children could get financial help from the government, but only if her husband had left her. If he was living in the house, then the thinking was that he should support them. So many men, realizing that their wives could get more money by going on welfare than the men could bring home working, left their families. After all, many of them figured, they weren’t worth much as men if they couldn’t support their families anyway, so the families would be better off without them. After a decade or 2 of this, there was an entire generation of kids who grew up without their dads, and this became the way things were supposed to be in their minds. These kids grew up and repeated the cycle.
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