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The sick twisted government did this to black families back in the 60s when they offered mothers welfare checks if the fathers were gone from the home. Along with taking dads away, they put these poor black kids in schools that never taught them anything, they were just seat warmers until they'd had enough and left school for the streets and gangs. it's all quite sad when you think about it, the fake government claimed to care about blacks but in reality they hate them, they've used them for votes for decades, and being blacks are uneducated they believe the hype and keep voting for their enemy, the democrats.

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beautiful, The Great Society destroyed the nuclear family, yes the democrat POTUS Johnson. nothing destroyed life like this

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Yes, I agree with you Dr. Alexander. And the sad part is that these kids can be very valuable to society as a lot of them are very smart, imagine if they can use their brain power to make the world better!!! What a sad state of affairs that the government does not recognize that and instead of letting them roam the streets they would really have programs to educate and nurture their potentiality. But no, all they talk about is transgender ideology and how not to hurt kids feelings.

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I have seen no indication that they WANT to work. There are jobs available for ANYONE who WANTS to work.

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Trying to quote Johnson (it's been a LONG time), I'll have n1993rs voting democrat for the next 200 years. We've got a looooong time to go before they wise up.

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I went to a crappy city high school in the 1970s. Democratic craphole city that keeps electing Democrats that do nothing but raise property taxes to pay for crappy schools.

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And look how good you turned out. No excuses for them.

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I went to a Catholic grade school but wasn't willing to go to a all-girls Catholic high school. One thing I noticed about the crappy city school was that students were not encouraged to go to college, which at that time was pretty inexpensive. There wasn't actually any real counselling at all for life after high school.

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In contrast to Kathleen, Rex Heuermann went to a top rated high school with Alec Baldwin on Democrat Rhode Island and look how he turned out. He went on to study architecture. A really high IQ with aptitudes in multiple areas is required to be an architect. It'a a more difficult degree than engineering. Rex started his own architecture firm which he ran for 25 years within 2 years of graduating and married a nice girl from Iceland in a Catholic church and did lots of work for Catholic charities. It just goes to show what can come out of going to a good Democrat high school.

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You must be referring to Rex Heuermann, the Gilgo Beach murders suspect.

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Have you seen how the globalists are using AI-deep fakes of Trump's voice now?

“DeSantis is Stooping to Such a Low Level” – Kari Lake SLAMS Dishonest DeSantis Ad Featuring AI-Deep Fake of Trump’s Voice

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/desantis-is-stooping-such-low-level-kari-lake/

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First I've heard about it. Thanks for the link.

The use of AI deep-fake voices and/or photos and video is a line that should never be crossed in political advertising (or anywhere else). I'm not surprised it came from the DeSantis camp. I really like Kari Lake's politics, presence, and ability to speak clearly, directly, and with complete confidence. Glad she spoke out against it. I hope she's on Trump's short list for VP.

P.S. If I have time after reading Substack, I usually read The Federalist, Brownstone, and The Daily Mail. I'll have to expand my horizons. The Gateway Pundit seems to jump on stories quickly, scooping other publications, from what you've been sharing.

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That's the one! The Chris Christie look alike. He was on the verge of retiring to South Carolina apparently, presumably so he could be closer to Lindsey Graham. It goes to show that someone can have lots of opportunities and go to a good school and still turn out to potentially be the scum of the earth.

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That is one take on what happened back in the 60s. What you leave out is personal responsibility. Even to this day we hear all the time "she found herself pregnant". Who just finds themselves "pregnant". The woman has 50% of the responsibility for "finding herself pregnant". Here in Canada we are finding that young, mostly black girls in the past - but now all races - are "accidently" getting pregnant. Do you blame the man or young man to not want an instant family? Story after story (in Canada) of especially black males impregnating woman after woman and not taking responsibility - this is NOT the governments fault.

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“Found herself pregnant” is the same language salad as “he died by suicide”. You can’t die by the hand of suicide— the person killed THEMSELVES! The beasts want to rid the concept of individual responsibility. When no one is responsible for anything, chaos ensues and actual perpetrators are off the hook. They invert/change language to change people’s thoughts and ideas about their own knowingness. Diabolical.

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Diabolical but also simplistic on so many levels...and people are falling for it - mind boggling

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Because dumbocraps aren't, themselves, responsible things. I can't bring myself to say "people" or "humans," because I'm not sure either word fits what they really are.

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Why does a woman think that raising a child without a father present is a good idea?

I am so sick and tired of "struggling" single mothers. Where is baby daddy?

Did you have sex with a dirtbag? You know that if you did, your child then has dirtbag DNA.

So...ladies...how about being more selective.

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But don't you know, women don't need men, heck they are men now 🙄

I'm tired of pretending nonsense is okay.

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I notice that young teenage girls that do not have a dad in their lives are more needy and attention-seeking.

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Think a tactic of your enemy is to destroy the family unit. That doesn't nothing for your community.

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Pardon

does* nothing for your community, broken families

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What about the women whose husbands abandoned them after the child/children were born, and he found himself someone else, because he didn't like the responsibility? The males are still the "baby daddy." I guess the women, did still have sex with a "dirtbag." One that lied to them for however many years.

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The warning signs are always there in the beginning.

People either ignore them or want to believe the best in people. It's a hard thing to admit and in some way, all of us have probably done it.

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So true. It doesn't necessarily have to be the father. It is so important for a male adult to live in the residence and get up every day and go to WORK.

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Absolutely. They don’t have to be perfect they just NEED TO BE THERE.

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Women have been sold a bad bill of goods that they can raise a child without a father present.

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boom

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Sounds like you just described Hunter Biden’s upbringing.

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Hi Paul,

South Africa is very different from the US in terms of one parent (being the mother) black households. Apartheid kept fathers away from home working on mines and in factories, leaving mothers to take care of children on their own. Many of these fathers then started new families with women closer to their place of work. And then left these women to take care of his new children on their own, and so the cycle continued. So, in South Africa the absent father existed because of an unjust social system and economic necessity.

What you describe in the US takes place to a degree in Brazil where very poor families are living in favelas and children are left to their own devices without any adult supervision because both parents have to work menial jobs just to get by.

I can't comment however on the situation in the US.

I used to help out a young kid in the early 90s when I was studying law. His mom was a cleaner in the apartment block I lived in. His father was nowhere to be seen. I used to take him to the cinema and out for meals and tried to get him interested in books and learning. At a moment of weakness, I stupidly gave him money to buy new clothes. But he never bought any new clothes. I asked him what he'd done with the money I gave him. He refused to answer me. I went to the back of the apartment block where he lived with his mom and demanded to see her. She came out and I asked her what she did with the money I'd given her son. She wouldn't answer me either. I felt taken advantage of, especially because she'd pimped her son out. Then I took a step back and realised I had no right to judge her because she was surviving any which way she could and I came from a different world where both my parents were present and I never missed a meal. But in no uncertain terms I told the boy in front of his mom that his mom had ruined it for him and I would not help him anymore. It was difficult seeing him hanging around the apartment block doing nothing after that and I could see the sadness in his eyes.

Then one day he was no longer around and nor was his mom. I felt bad but then I said they were not my responsibility.

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You are correct. They were not your responsibility. No need to feel bad. You did the right thing in ending contact with them. They owed you the courtesy of an answer, at the very least.

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Hi Kathleen,

I hope you're doing well.

Thanks for your reply and for understanding my decision.

It's a cruel world indeed.

Being taken for granted is just as cruel.

Speak soon.

Much love,

Barry

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One of the best things Paul has ever written. Very eloquently and truthfully put💥🔨

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Sounds more like the thugs are quoting a social worker in order to gain your sympathy and take advantage of your kindness and compassion.

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In an Elephant reservation that got overpopulated, they shifted a lot of young bulls to somewhere else, the sling that shifted them on to the truck was not strong enough to lift the grown up bulls, so they left them behind.

In the new reservation with the young bulls they started to find dead and mutilated Rhino's and people did not understand what had happened to these Rhino's. Until they found that the young bull Elephants were killing them. They came up with the idea to try and shift the grown up bulls which they did and the killing of the Rhino's stopped, their conclusion was that the grown up bulls were teaching the younger bulls what was right and wrong.

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Blacks were on pace to surpass whites as far as careers and salary were concerned. Then came the welfare checks.

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Lol. That is absolutely false. Who do you think you're kidding?

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I am sorry that you have a facile view of the situation and are unable, unwilling to admit that you are ignorant of the facts surrounding it. Please do some reading and then comment. Commenting, though, without evidence to the contrary is really just blind commitment to ideology talking...and that blind commitment can be really dumb. Lesson to be learned: Don't rely on it.

Signed,

An economist whose job it is to know these things.

For your perusal (I will caution you that there are big words in the readings, complex ideas that require critical thinking skills--objective thought---that are no longer taught in school.)

https://www.amazon.com/Discrimination-and-Disparities-audiobook/dp/B078N861YQ/ref=sr_1_1

https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Ground-American-Social-1950-1980/dp/0465065880

And if you do not read these texts thoroughly with objective critical thinking skills engaged, but, rather, read cherry-picked--read: that align with your world-view--reviews of the books please do not bother to express your uneducated knee-jerk reactions. Thank you.

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You amuse me, Chris. You don't seem very confident of your position when you resort to insulting someone who challenges you. Wallow in your fairy tales, if you must. Enjoy yourself. I have no interest in your nonsense.

Try reading the hard truths in The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book), Paperback – Illustrated, January 10, 1996

by Richard J. Herrnstein (Author) and Charles Murray

or

Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America, Hardcover – June 15, 2021

by Charles Murray (Author)

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Part of the problem is that a couple generations of people have been brainwashed into thinking debasing patriarchy was a good idea. Dad's not needed, the government will support you instead. Watch tv and other media ads and observe how often the guy is depicted as a goofus. Every other youtube podcast video I watch seems to have that stupid insurance commercial where the idiot guy can't control his electric unicycle device and flips over the railing while the woman looks pained at his incompetence. People were sold a bill of goods on "no fault divorce". Divorce parties are now apparently a "thing". Men detach from berating wives, and hunker down in video games and porn and online gambling. (All of that isn't to excuse men who do bad things too.) But society cannot succeed if it becomes 'matriarchal'; that is just another term for communism/marxism. Without strong, morally-based men willing to do the right thing in spite of non-rational, emotion-based attacks on their unique family roles, the spiral downward will continue into full totalitarianism. Men and women are not the same, nor are their roles in the family and society. Wake up people!

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You nail it! Years ago raw & honest was the way. Children were to “be seen & not heard”. Then culture changed were children became the center. Every child wins by schools. “Every child succeeds” by congress! Excuse me, not every child wins or succeeds! Parents have their blame also. Schools now throw everyone in the same class and tell the teacher to teach to the standards. The entire system is meant to fail. Congress did not do well with every child succeeds! Or schools every child wins! Educators are not educating any longer when they are made to be probation officers, testing to each child, teaching to each child, with one teacher and 30 students from failing students, trouble students, none english speakers or parents trying to survive....just entire national ruin.

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