We’ve got problems. Serious ones. We’ve heard enough about rates of single parenthood among whites and blacks. For most of us, this is not news. The residue from the feel-good 1970s was more toxic than realized. What we once saw as a delightful toy is now a choking hazard.
While high-status whites could weather any or all decisions,
minorities who appropriated the same lifestyle choices aren’t so lucky. Only
Candice Bergen can be Murphy Brown. But like I said, most of us saw this
coming. It’s not news; it’s just sad.
I’ve
been thinking about the latest job figures for black teens, which are tragic:
four in ten are not working.
For
people who struggle at math, that’s like 40 out of 100. Or 400 out of 1,000. I
could go on, because I am drunk.
This is a statistic that shakes the brain, and it reflects a
problem that cannot be fixed by government programs that allowed such problems
to fester in the first place.
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