'GREAT SOCIETY'; Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, this was the greatest devastation, wrong doing on the African-American society, it 'broke' them, damaged them; 100 years post slavery 1865 ending...
'GREAT SOCIETY'; Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, this was the greatest devastation, wrong doing on the African-American society, it 'broke' them, damaged them; 100 years post slavery 1865 ending...
From 1865-1965, 100 years, African-Americans were on their way up and out, doing tremendously well, only 1 in 4 homes was a single parent; then Lyndon's program 'helping', destroyed them
Thomas Sowell ".....One part of the 2015 book that is both hopeful and depressing is Sowell’s discussion of New York City’s prestigious Stuyvesant High School. The hopeful part is that in 1938 the proportion of black students attending Stuyvesant was almost as high as their representation in New York City’s population. The depressing part is that by 1971 the proportion of black students attending Stuyvesant had fallen to one-tenth the 1938 proportion. To what did Sowell attribute this dramatic change? Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs that expanded the welfare state. Welfare gives people a strong incentive to break up families or not form them in the first place...."
Mendelsohn told me that during his appointment as Medical Director of Project Head Start’s Medical Consultation Service in 1968, he was horrified by the discussions held privately in the White House with his medical colleagues. They were openly discussing how they could control the population of the poor by promoting infant formula, vaccinations, sadistic hospital birthing practices, deficient government schools, and neighborhood abortion clinics. This was just too much of an assault on his strong Jewish faith and his Hippocratic oath.
I’ve heard this mentioned before —— was it Candace Owens who discussed this…. Regardless it is a valuable discussion that must be addressed and I thank you for writing this.
in 1991, we made costumes for a production of MuleBone at Lincoln Center Theater. we used as research a book of photographs of James van der Zee from the 1930s. beautiful debutantes in lovely gowns posed in front of grand pianos in their parent's living room, graduating college classes, chubby much loved babies in pin tucked christening gowns, dapper young men dressed to break hearts, long married couples posing for an anniversary portrait. what happened to these people? they had a vibrant culture with art, music and industry. in NY they could aspire to Striver's Row. Madam CJ Walker invited Enrico Caruso over for dinner and he suggested the name for her villa.
a few years ago, my BF and i were in washington DC and by chance went into a small museum where there were books of African American life in the 1930s- again, proud, neat, educated, industrious people.
not victims, not blaming everything on ancestral slavery, not looking for a hand out or a free ride, not taking drugs and killing each other in gang warfare. not living among broken windows and graffiti.
no one said "these people aren't good at math so let's dumb it down for them so they won't feel bad." no one attended mandatory diversity sensitivity classes where they had their noses rubbed in some fictitious guilt for things that happened long before any of us now living can take the blame or use as an excuse.
recently i listened to Bari Weiss interviewing Condoleezza Rice on her podcast, Honestly. when asked what she wanted to be when she grew up as a child, Ms Rice replied "i thought i would be the next Van Cliburn." she pointed out how her parents stressed education and study, how she was a competitive gymnast. she began to learn French, music, figure skating and ballet as a toddler. it's not that she was some kind of rare prodigy, but rather that there were rules and expectations placed on her; there were goals that she was expected to achieve.
now it all seems hopeless. a DA says "we won't prosecute theft under $900" and stores get robbed in legal increments. people learn helplessness when the government pays the bills. look what happened during covid. at least FDR paid people to do something. Biden paid people to do nothing.
Blaming 'someone else' for broken families is a lot like blaming guns when people are killed with a gun...If you outlaw guns, people are going to continue to kill other people just using other means...!
Here's the deal, just from my un-scientific observation of this 'single parent family' pandemic, it is not just the black race, there are way too many divorces and just plain ole shacking-up and one night stands resulting in a child (or more) within the white race.
It's just like in the practice of medicine...We can treat the symptoms of a sickness, or you can treat the disease...
Men and women of all races are created with innate desire to do evil of all kinds...There is one solution to solving this problem, but the greater part of the human race is not open to this option because it is not as much fun as living a selfish and mostly evil life...Yeah, you might not physically kill someone, but you can certainly ruin lives by immoral actions that seem to be fun...!
Yes, I have some deep rooted desires I am tempted to do, desires that do not involve killing someone...But I'm sure those desires could certainly destroy lives virtually overnight including my own. Fortunately, I was raised by parents who also must have had the same desires, but resisted then with God's help, and they were able to instill moral restraints in my upbringing...Did those moral restraints work very well?...Okay, I must confess, I 'fell off the wagon' way too many times, and 'experienced' what I thought was fun...BUT, there was always a cost I had to bear each and every time. Did I blame someone else? Well yes, a few too many times I did, but in a very clear review, hindsight shows I could have said "No" many times. And yes, I was involved in more than one broken family, not all were of my making, as I stepped in and became the "dad" that was missing...I don't really believe that paid my "debt" for my mistakes though...
Just something for YOU to think about before you too make one or more of "those" kinds of mistakes...
I yearn for the days the leeches are removed, both white and black. They MUST be shamed for what they have done and still do, and for what has been created in this country - a false monster. They thrive on hatred and division. Thank you Dr. Alexander for beginning this conversation and saying it loud and clear! It must continue in depth, be long lasting, of value and be exposing or it will be useless!
Johnson hated black people. His intent was to keep them dependent and on the plantation. But back then the failed to see it and most still do not see how they have been used. Just look back at some of his statements. He was an evil, horrible man.
Yes, and the bastard recalled the airplanes that were sent to assist the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, 55 years ago from today. greatest POS president ever. https://www.usslibertyveterans.org/
Amazing how this coincided with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 also known as the "Hart-Celler Act."
"The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act and more recently as the 1965 Immigration Act, is a federal law passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The law abolished the National Origins Formula, which had been the basis of U.S. immigration policy since the 1920s. The act removed de facto discrimination against Southern and Eastern Europeans, Asians, as well as other non-Western and Northern European ethnic groups from American immigration policy."
"The National Origins Formula had been established in the 1920s to preserve American homogeneity by promoting immigration from Western and Northern Europe. During the 1960s, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this approach increasingly came under attack for being racially discriminatory. With the support of the Johnson administration, Senator Philip Hart and Congressman Emanuel Celler introduced a bill to repeal the formula. The bill received wide support from both northern Democratic and Republican members of Congress, but strong opposition mostly from Southern Democrats, the latter mostly voting Nay or Not Voting. President Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 into law on October 3, 1965. In opening entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than Northwestern European and Germanic groups, the Act significantly altered immigration demographics in the U.S. " --WIKI
One of the benefits of watching the movie "Hidden Figures," is it shows the pre-welfare state strength of Black families (NASA, early 1960's). Yes, there was institutional prejudice, but Blacks could overcome it with strength of character built in strong families.
Bingo! Conservatives used to bring this up a lot maybe 30 years ago, now they seem to have given up or forgotten and just want to point to inner city problems as due to "Democrat rule." Even Democrats used to care about this issue (Daniel Patrick Moynihan). I live in Baltimore, where we had riots in 2015 over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. CNN reporter John Blake, who grew up here, came back to visit his city after many years absence - he talks of when he grew up in Baltimore, older Black men who were hard working at their jobs, and acted as community "enforcers." But when he walked around Baltimore in 2015, he asked "where are the men?" The answer: dead or in prison. google CNN lord of the flies Baltimore 2015 for his report.
In December of that year, I was called for jury duty for the first of the policemen charged (unjustly) in Freddie Grays's death. Sitting waiting to be screened, overheard a telling conversation: an older Black man was telling the guy next to him about his life in Baltimore. Said he's had four uncles die in prison. Spoke of a time when he went to try to make peace between two gangs who were going to fight. "The police will come, some of you will be beaten, and some of you will be killed. AND THEN WHAT WILL YOU SAY TO YOUR AUNTS AND YOUR MOTHERS?" Wow, I thought - doesn't that tell it all - no Dads in the picture.
Thank you for writing this piece! Having read several Sowell books, I can appreciate the damage we did to a portion of our population. After living through these past two years, I know there is no limit to the government's desire to harm the citizens it serves. Keep up the great work...your readers are grateful for all that you do.
Thomas Sowell ".....One part of the 2015 book that is both hopeful and depressing is Sowell’s discussion of New York City’s prestigious Stuyvesant High School. The hopeful part is that in 1938 the proportion of black students attending Stuyvesant was almost as high as their representation in New York City’s population. The depressing part is that by 1971 the proportion of black students attending Stuyvesant had fallen to one-tenth the 1938 proportion. To what did Sowell attribute this dramatic change? Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs that expanded the welfare state. Welfare gives people a strong incentive to break up families or not form them in the first place...."
https://www.hoover.org/research/thomas-sowell-intellectual-giant
Exactly right. LBJ destroyed the nuclear family for them.
Whole heartedly agree! Allowing fentanyl and drugs to pour into our major democratic cities is a time bomb when the economy collapses!
Paul this is one of your best posts ever. This info is rarely acknowledged.
If found this substack very informative about LBJ and the Great Society
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/why-you-should-support-bidens-baby?s=r
From the substack
Mendelsohn told me that during his appointment as Medical Director of Project Head Start’s Medical Consultation Service in 1968, he was horrified by the discussions held privately in the White House with his medical colleagues. They were openly discussing how they could control the population of the poor by promoting infant formula, vaccinations, sadistic hospital birthing practices, deficient government schools, and neighborhood abortion clinics. This was just too much of an assault on his strong Jewish faith and his Hippocratic oath.
I’ve heard this mentioned before —— was it Candace Owens who discussed this…. Regardless it is a valuable discussion that must be addressed and I thank you for writing this.
in 1991, we made costumes for a production of MuleBone at Lincoln Center Theater. we used as research a book of photographs of James van der Zee from the 1930s. beautiful debutantes in lovely gowns posed in front of grand pianos in their parent's living room, graduating college classes, chubby much loved babies in pin tucked christening gowns, dapper young men dressed to break hearts, long married couples posing for an anniversary portrait. what happened to these people? they had a vibrant culture with art, music and industry. in NY they could aspire to Striver's Row. Madam CJ Walker invited Enrico Caruso over for dinner and he suggested the name for her villa.
a few years ago, my BF and i were in washington DC and by chance went into a small museum where there were books of African American life in the 1930s- again, proud, neat, educated, industrious people.
not victims, not blaming everything on ancestral slavery, not looking for a hand out or a free ride, not taking drugs and killing each other in gang warfare. not living among broken windows and graffiti.
no one said "these people aren't good at math so let's dumb it down for them so they won't feel bad." no one attended mandatory diversity sensitivity classes where they had their noses rubbed in some fictitious guilt for things that happened long before any of us now living can take the blame or use as an excuse.
recently i listened to Bari Weiss interviewing Condoleezza Rice on her podcast, Honestly. when asked what she wanted to be when she grew up as a child, Ms Rice replied "i thought i would be the next Van Cliburn." she pointed out how her parents stressed education and study, how she was a competitive gymnast. she began to learn French, music, figure skating and ballet as a toddler. it's not that she was some kind of rare prodigy, but rather that there were rules and expectations placed on her; there were goals that she was expected to achieve.
now it all seems hopeless. a DA says "we won't prosecute theft under $900" and stores get robbed in legal increments. people learn helplessness when the government pays the bills. look what happened during covid. at least FDR paid people to do something. Biden paid people to do nothing.
Highly recommend American thought leaders podcast for perspectives on current society situation. Frijters.senger.,bell guests.
Blaming 'someone else' for broken families is a lot like blaming guns when people are killed with a gun...If you outlaw guns, people are going to continue to kill other people just using other means...!
Here's the deal, just from my un-scientific observation of this 'single parent family' pandemic, it is not just the black race, there are way too many divorces and just plain ole shacking-up and one night stands resulting in a child (or more) within the white race.
It's just like in the practice of medicine...We can treat the symptoms of a sickness, or you can treat the disease...
Men and women of all races are created with innate desire to do evil of all kinds...There is one solution to solving this problem, but the greater part of the human race is not open to this option because it is not as much fun as living a selfish and mostly evil life...Yeah, you might not physically kill someone, but you can certainly ruin lives by immoral actions that seem to be fun...!
Yes, I have some deep rooted desires I am tempted to do, desires that do not involve killing someone...But I'm sure those desires could certainly destroy lives virtually overnight including my own. Fortunately, I was raised by parents who also must have had the same desires, but resisted then with God's help, and they were able to instill moral restraints in my upbringing...Did those moral restraints work very well?...Okay, I must confess, I 'fell off the wagon' way too many times, and 'experienced' what I thought was fun...BUT, there was always a cost I had to bear each and every time. Did I blame someone else? Well yes, a few too many times I did, but in a very clear review, hindsight shows I could have said "No" many times. And yes, I was involved in more than one broken family, not all were of my making, as I stepped in and became the "dad" that was missing...I don't really believe that paid my "debt" for my mistakes though...
Just something for YOU to think about before you too make one or more of "those" kinds of mistakes...
Dr. Donnie Smith
I yearn for the days the leeches are removed, both white and black. They MUST be shamed for what they have done and still do, and for what has been created in this country - a false monster. They thrive on hatred and division. Thank you Dr. Alexander for beginning this conversation and saying it loud and clear! It must continue in depth, be long lasting, of value and be exposing or it will be useless!
Johnson hated black people. His intent was to keep them dependent and on the plantation. But back then the failed to see it and most still do not see how they have been used. Just look back at some of his statements. He was an evil, horrible man.
Yes, and the bastard recalled the airplanes that were sent to assist the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, 55 years ago from today. greatest POS president ever. https://www.usslibertyveterans.org/
Amazing how this coincided with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 also known as the "Hart-Celler Act."
"The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act and more recently as the 1965 Immigration Act, is a federal law passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The law abolished the National Origins Formula, which had been the basis of U.S. immigration policy since the 1920s. The act removed de facto discrimination against Southern and Eastern Europeans, Asians, as well as other non-Western and Northern European ethnic groups from American immigration policy."
"The National Origins Formula had been established in the 1920s to preserve American homogeneity by promoting immigration from Western and Northern Europe. During the 1960s, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, this approach increasingly came under attack for being racially discriminatory. With the support of the Johnson administration, Senator Philip Hart and Congressman Emanuel Celler introduced a bill to repeal the formula. The bill received wide support from both northern Democratic and Republican members of Congress, but strong opposition mostly from Southern Democrats, the latter mostly voting Nay or Not Voting. President Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 into law on October 3, 1965. In opening entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than Northwestern European and Germanic groups, the Act significantly altered immigration demographics in the U.S. " --WIKI
One of the benefits of watching the movie "Hidden Figures," is it shows the pre-welfare state strength of Black families (NASA, early 1960's). Yes, there was institutional prejudice, but Blacks could overcome it with strength of character built in strong families.
Bingo! Conservatives used to bring this up a lot maybe 30 years ago, now they seem to have given up or forgotten and just want to point to inner city problems as due to "Democrat rule." Even Democrats used to care about this issue (Daniel Patrick Moynihan). I live in Baltimore, where we had riots in 2015 over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. CNN reporter John Blake, who grew up here, came back to visit his city after many years absence - he talks of when he grew up in Baltimore, older Black men who were hard working at their jobs, and acted as community "enforcers." But when he walked around Baltimore in 2015, he asked "where are the men?" The answer: dead or in prison. google CNN lord of the flies Baltimore 2015 for his report.
In December of that year, I was called for jury duty for the first of the policemen charged (unjustly) in Freddie Grays's death. Sitting waiting to be screened, overheard a telling conversation: an older Black man was telling the guy next to him about his life in Baltimore. Said he's had four uncles die in prison. Spoke of a time when he went to try to make peace between two gangs who were going to fight. "The police will come, some of you will be beaten, and some of you will be killed. AND THEN WHAT WILL YOU SAY TO YOUR AUNTS AND YOUR MOTHERS?" Wow, I thought - doesn't that tell it all - no Dads in the picture.
Thank you for writing this piece! Having read several Sowell books, I can appreciate the damage we did to a portion of our population. After living through these past two years, I know there is no limit to the government's desire to harm the citizens it serves. Keep up the great work...your readers are grateful for all that you do.