Forty Years Later: The Moynihan Report

Oh yeah. Forty years ago this summer. The Moynihan Report on the Negro Family.
Kay S. Hymowitz does a little retrospective entitled
The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies.
Back then you see, in 1965, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan sounded the
alarm that the black family was in crisis. Illegitimacy rates had soared to
25 percent. Something had to be done.

But Moynihan was shouted down in a storm of abuse, and a literature began to
emerge that celebrated the single-parent family.

It was the beginning of 40 years of liberal lies on the family.

Then the second wave feminists appeared
and they augmented the liberal attack on the nuclear family.

By 1995, 30 years later, the
number of black children born out of wedlock had soared to 70 percent. In
1996 a Republican Congress, the first Republican Congress in 42 years, passed
a welfare reform bill that made a down payment on ending the culture of
welfare dependency that subsidized the demolition of the black family. Thank God
for evil Republicans.

But liberals still haven’t learned. The New York Times prattles
on about inequality, as if. As Hymowitz writes:

Read through the megazillion words on class, income mobility,
and poverty in the recent New York Times series “Class Matters” and you
still won’t grasp two of the most basic truths on the subject:
1. entrenched, multigenerational poverty is largely black; and
2. it is intricately intertwined with
the collapse of the nuclear family in the inner city.

Wanna avoid poverty? Finish
high school. Don’t have children before you get married, and don’t get divorced.
Hey, it’s not rocket science.

One day, like many other components in the old Democratic coalition, African
Americans will come to an understanding of what liberals have done to them.
They will realize that the people they trusted and voted for have been
lying to them. Being
good, polite Americans—rather than lefties of a revolutionary
persuasion—they will not in their rage “cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.”
Instead they will just quietly get up and leave. And maybe join that Republican
sewing circle they’d heard about at church.