{"id":536914,"date":"2023-01-07T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/black-families-need-fathers-not-reparations-for-slavery\/"},"modified":"2023-01-07T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T18:00:00","slug":"black-families-need-fathers-not-reparations-for-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-families-need-fathers-not-reparations-for-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"#Black families need fathers \u2014 not reparations for slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41417f3367b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41417f3367b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-families-need-fathers-not-reparations-for-slavery\/#%E2%80%9CBlack_families_need_fathers_%E2%80%94_not_reparations_for_slavery%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Black families need fathers \u2014 not reparations for slavery&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBlack_families_need_fathers_%E2%80%94_not_reparations_for_slavery%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Black families need fathers \u2014 not reparations for slavery&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Leave it to Elon Musk to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1602257284062511104\">tweet<\/a> a message that perfectly encapsulates the truth about reparations for slavery. At a time when the push for reparations is gaining steam nationwide, Musk\u2019s mid-December missive \u2014 \u201cIt is easy to fool people, but it is almost impossible to convince people that they have been fooled\u201d \u2014 has never felt more relevant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 50 years, progressives and self-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed black leaders have fooled many Americans. They\u2019ve fooled them into believing that the economic, health, and educational disparities plaguing our community are the result of racial injustices, white privilege and systemic racism. For this foolish crowd, the reparations movement \u2014 which this week gained traction with the formation of a Reparations Commission in my hometown of St. Paul, Minn. \u2014 is yet another effort to obscure the real ailments impacting blacks while siphoning off billions of dollars toward themselves and an never-ending class of government dependent families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/sen-moynihan.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"More than one-half century ago, legendary New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (above in 1966) spoke of a &quot;crisis&quot; of single-parenthood in black communities\u2014a crisis far more dire today.\" class=\"wp-image-25232402\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/sen-moynihan.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/sen-moynihan.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/sen-moynihan.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/sen-moynihan.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/sen-moynihan.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>More than one-half century ago, legendary New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (above in 1966) spoke of a \u201ccrisis\u201d of single-parenthood in black communities\u2014a crisis far more dire today.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bettmann Archive<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A key consequence of fatherless black homes is underachievement in education.  In Chicago, for instance, just 14% of black students in the public school system passed basic reading tests. \" class=\"wp-image-25232406\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>A key consequence of fatherless black homes is underachievement in education.  In Chicago, for instance, just 14% of black students in the public school system passed basic reading tests. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rather than demand reparations, black Americans should seek legal damages from left-wing institutions \u2014 along with their allies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> and academia \u2014 who\u2019ve helped destroy the black family while producing a culture of pervasive victimhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because despite their very real consequences, the biggest cause of black inequality isn\u2019t slavery or red-lining or Jim Crow \u2014 it\u2019s our community\u2019s dependency on social welfare programs and the fatherless families they continue to subsidize. Established as part of Pres. Johnson\u2019s \u201cGreat Society,\u201d these programs paved the way for the dissolution of the traditional black family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/baltimore-school.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"In Baltimore, the situation is better; 37% of black students read at grade level.  Charter and private schools are an answer to this problem, if only they weren't discouraged by powerful (and progressive) teachers' unions.\" class=\"wp-image-25232409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/baltimore-school.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/baltimore-school.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/baltimore-school.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>In Baltimore, the situation is better; 37% of black students read at grade level.  Charter and private schools are an answer to this problem, if only they weren\u2019t discouraged by powerful (and progressive) teachers\u2019 unions.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/patrice-cullors.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors acquired a multi-million dollar portfolio of posh properties during her time leading the social justice organization. BLM supports the reparations movement. \" class=\"wp-image-25232415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/patrice-cullors.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/patrice-cullors.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/patrice-cullors.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors acquired a multi-million dollar portfolio of posh properties during her time leading the social justice organization. BLM supports the reparations movement. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Taylor Jewell\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1965, the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/an-analysis-of-out-of-wedlock-births-in-the-united-states\/\">called the then 24% <\/a>unmarried birth rate in the black community a \u201ccrisis.\u201d Moynihan wrote at the time that \u201ca national effort towards the problems of Negro Americans must be directed towards the question of family structure . . . the object should be to strengthen the Negro family so as to enable it to raise and support its members as do other families.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/77-black-births-to-single-moms-49-for-hispanic-immigrants\">approximately 80% of black families<\/a> are led by a single parent \u2014 almost always a mother without a husband. Enabled by welfare and other \u201cGreat Society\u201d handouts, the resulting low academic scores, high incarceration rates and rampant unemployment confirm the massive negative impact progressive policies have had on black America. They\u2019re policies that reparations \u2014 yet another form of hand-out \u2014 will not fix until fathers once again lead black homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/luxury-home.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"This $6 million home is the splashiest spread among Cullors' collection; despite hosting Cullors' own son's birthday party, BLM leaders insist the estate is solely used for official purposes. \" class=\"wp-image-25232418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/luxury-home.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/luxury-home.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/luxury-home.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>This $6 million home is the splashiest spread among Cullors\u2019 collection; despite hosting Cullors\u2019 own son\u2019s birthday party, BLM leaders insist the estate is solely used for official purposes. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ringo Chiu for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/harlem-70s.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A street scene from Harlem in 1970, a neighborhood where the author was partially raised by his single mother decades ago. \" class=\"wp-image-25232425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/harlem-70s.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/harlem-70s.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/harlem-70s.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A street scene from Harlem in 1970, a neighborhood where the author was partially raised by his single mother decades ago. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Indeed, we can no longer ignore the results of generations upon generations of fatherless families. It\u2019s a reality I identify with all too well as the son of a divorced mother who lived in a Harlem public housing in the early 1970s. As a child, I knew the taste of powdered eggs and government cheese; I witnessed the inhumane treatment of women and children at the hands of drug addicts, criminals, and gangs. This is a grim reality, one conveniently denied by old-school progressives and young liberals intoxicated by the quick-fix reparations so easily offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reparations for slavery will not undo the damage fatherlessness has wrought. If anything, a conditions-free financial payout will only exacerbate this intractable crisis. And, as Moynihan pointed out decades ago, this is a crisis \u2014 made worse by a \u201cwoke\u201d black leadership lacking in vision and accountability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/qualls-family.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The author, third from right, with his family; as he sees it, reparations for slavery offer an easy salve for angry, under-educated African-Americans seduced by the specter of government handouts. \" class=\"wp-image-25232432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/qualls-family.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/qualls-family.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/qualls-family.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The author, third from right, with his family; as he sees it, reparations for slavery offer an easy salve for angry, under-educated African-Americans seduced by the specter of government handouts. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Kendall Qualls<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today, while their leaders are busy acquiring multi-million property portfolios, black youth in urban areas are failing and falling behind. In 2019, for instance, only 14% of black students in Chicago Public Schools were proficient in reading. In Baltimore Public Schools, 37% of black seniors read at grade level. High-performing private and charter schools are a well-known solution to these challenges, but school-choice continues to be restricted by, you guessed it, progressive groups and teachers unions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And so school systems, propelled by left-leaning policies, turn out semi-literate, under-employable, angry young people trapped at the lowest levels of society and unsure whom to blame for putting them there. No wonder reparations sound so tempting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But no matter how great these challenges may seem, the way forward is not through reparations. Instead, African-Americans must return to their cultural roots of faith, family, and better education for our children. Regardless of how neat a bow progressives try to tie around it, reparations for slavery cannot undo the generational rot caused by decades of hand-outs and fatherlessness. It will only further tether African-Americans to the culture of dependency that can and must be dismantled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Progressives, both black and white, often like to lie to themselves \u2014 fathers don\u2019t matter, whites want to keep blacks down, reparations for slavery can fix every black ill. But when it comes to fooling folks, it\u2019s not just Elon Musk dishing out words of wisdom. As Booker T. Washington wrote in his 1901 autobiography: \u201cA lie doesn\u2019t become truth, wrong doesn\u2019t become right, and evil doesn\u2019t become good, just because it\u2019s accepted by a majority.\u201d\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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