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Originally Posted by Zenturian
About 70% of black children these days come from single family homes. Absentee fathers cause the poverty, not racisim. How is this to be blamed on slavery?
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One of the most enduring effects of slavery is the fracturing of the black families. This was a deliberate action performed to prevent any bonds or relationships forming that could pose a threat to the sole authority of the slave master. The presence of an authority figure in the role of a father could undermine the authority of a slave master in the eyes of children. To combat this, families were consistently broken up and scattered, often with every member of a family sent in different directions. The hope was there would never be strong enough bonds developed that could challenge the master.
I'd go into all the citations, but this is a pub discussion where that sort of google-mastery is frowned upon.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Actually, white people commit more assuming we are talking about people making $13,000 or less a year. Where are you getting your statistics? The difference is that whites are statistically less likely to get prison time. Would you like to compare citations? I'm ready.
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Originally Posted by willravel
I know you're new here, so I was wiling to grant you latitude, but unless you can demonstrate racism to the objective reader, you're just name calling. TFP isn't a place for name calling.
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It's this very type of snobbery that makes politics so ugly to so many members. Stop being so sanctimonious to so many people. This is a pub discussion. You started it, in fact. It's this very type of behavior that drives people away in droves. You know the letter of the rules of tfp. You also know the spirit of them. Stop flaunting them at new members as if attempting to establish some sort of dominance here. It's making tfp look like a bunch of elitist pricks.