Do you think that black women are destroying the black community?

- Not completely responsible. The problems within the black community stems from fatherlessness and while we can and absolutely should hold those black men responsible for abandoning their families, the fact is black women CHOSE those men. In fact many black men from what I have heard complain that if your not a thug, many black women want nothing to do with you.
So black women chose the worse men they could which resulted in those men abandoning their families and itself resulted in the disfunction we see today. However those black women were doing this in the sixties when this all started, and thanks to the very screwed up welfare system, they would be rewarded with welfare money only if the man was not there thus encouraging these women to actively choose these men (in other cases it only acted as a safety net so that these women who would otherwise would have passed on the attractive man with questionable character felt like they could take a chance on him since they had that welfare safety net (plus the rise of the "sexual revolution" that suggested that casual sex had no negative repercussions (which was obviously incorrect)).
So yes, they were to blame in the sixties when this started as they were the ones with the final say (they were the ones risking pregnancy and barring rape were the ones who decided who got to reproduce and who did not, the man could encourage it but she had to go along with it). That said, almost all of those women are not alive currently and as such we cannot claim that the current women are to blame as they are as screwed up from the fatherlessness as men AND we cannot state that black men did not play a part in this as well, they absolutely did and a large part of it (and continue to do so just as the women do).
At best you can claim that their was a 60/40 break in responsibility originally (simply because women are the gate keepers of sex), but at this point both parties are equally responsible for the past generation of fatherless children and thus need to be held accountable for their actions.1|00|0Is this still revelant?Black men are never held responsible. It's always blamed on the women. I also heard a few black men say that they can't find work because of black women so...
I've actually seen the exact opposite, where black men are always blamed and black women are always portrayed as the victim despite the fact that these women are actively choosing shitty men. As for not finding work because of black women that is stupid.
The fact is both parties are responsible and need to suck it up and act like adults. The problem is how do you act like an adult when you have a broken home and are raised by children who themselves came from broken homes? Its a difficult process but one that could be fixed if both parties stopped trying to shift blame, started taking responsibility for their own actions and poor decisions, and then did something to actually fix it like not going after thugs and deadbeats or using children as a paycheck and not trying to fuck everything that moves and abandoning your child because its easier then being an adult. Once they fix this , almost every single other problem we see in the black community will resolve itself and every one will be the better for it, but it only starts when some one is willing to admit to their part in the problem.- Show All Show Less
Then we will never see a functional black community, we will continue to see them impoverished, with substantially higher rates of criminality all the while trying to assign blame to every single person who was not making those decisions for them.
The irony is statistically blacks after slavery were better off then blacks now (lower crime rates, higher income, lower unemployment, more intact families etc.) so they definitly have the capacity to do it, its just a matter of stepping up, even if its only one person at a time, and doing it. The real issue is when your surrounded by disfunction, its really hard to see it. Most don't see it until they leave those areas and get out of that enviroment. Only then do they start seeing how things could be.
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- No one person, person type, sex, condition or anything else is "completely responsible for all the poverty and brokenness in the black community." That's as honest as honest can be. That said - - -
Black fathers- or more correctly, the absence thereof, is a greater cause of the dissolution of black families. According to statistics about fatherless homes, 90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes; 71% of pregnant teenagers lack a father figure; 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes; 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes; and 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions have no father. Furthermore, fatherless boys and girls are twice as likely to drop out of high school and twice as likely to end up in jail.
The majority of black students- by a wide margin- score "below basic" in reading, math and science. “Below basic” is the score a student receives when he is unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of knowledge and grade level skills. How much can racism explain this?
To do well in school, someone must remind a kid do his homework, get a good night’s rest, have breakfast, mind the teacher, etc. If these basic family functions are not performed, it makes little difference how much money is put into education, the result will be disappointing.
Thomas Sowell, a world-renowned black economist and professor with degrees from Harvard and Stanford, has argued that “The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.”
The bottom line is that... today's discrimination cannot go very far in explaining the problems faced by a large segment of the black community. (emphasis mine)
Excerpts from Walter E. Williams, a black professor of Economics at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.1|00|0Is this still revelant?
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- Anonymous1 moNo, I think systemic racism is responsible for that.
According to surveys, black people with a college degree are still paid less than their white counterparts. What do black women have to do with that?
The system is built this way in order to favor white people1|00|0Is this still revelant? - Black woken aren’t destroying the black community stop being racist1|00|0Is this still revelant?
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58- Er. . . no. There is a rift developing. "Black" men are beginning to blame their issues on "Black" feminism. They think they will be able to join up with "White" supremacist fruitcakes incels. Racism doesn't work that way. Racists do not share power with anyone. Even if they hate the same things.2|00|1
- The government is destroying the black community with policies that replace the fathers with a welfare system and a societal propensity of incarceration.1|00|0
- Personally to a extent i do think they are, but black men are also at fault. Black women are no longer picking good boyfriend's or husbands and are also no longer teaching there children very well. That's for this generation, not the older ones. Black men are becoming man whores and are no longer being a good role model to others0|10|0
- No. Pop culture, news media, and white liberals are.0|00|0
- Anonymous2 moNo, I think black men are just as responsible for it. The problem is that the black community doesn't take responsibility for any of their problems and just plays the victim and blames everyone else.1|00|0
So many black men blame black women for the downfall of the black community and how black women and children, yes, including children aren't wrothy of love or protection from black men. They even included children In their list of people they won't protect...
I don't understand it. And then get upset when black women can't do everything. Black women aren't super humen. As much as they put pressure on black women to be strong and hold down a family they forget about the people who break under the pressureYeah... I'm black. It really sucks how black women are expected to protect black men at all costs and raise children all on their own
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And I hate to say it but how has that worked out? I just heard a story about a man basically walking out on his girlfriend and left her with the baby, girlfriend ended up hooked on drugs and eventually lost her job. Finally kids got removed.
I mean yes the media prottsys black women as strong and selfless but they never protray reality that a lot of black women fall apart and are no where near strong. I know I'm not Strong because honestly I didn't have any heathy coping strategies.. something that black women as a whole are deprived of
- I am white so my opinion on this isn't technically valid but from my perspective, black women are very uplifting and progressive for society in general0|00|1
- No. Why would I think that?1|00|0
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So many black men say that black women are destroying the black community.
- I'll believe it when I see proof.0|00|0
- I haven't destroyed shit yet.1|00|0
- Anonymous2 moNo I don’t1|00|0
I want to see how many people say that black women are at fault. On other websites all I see is black men bashing. Black women for everything
- Anonymous1 moi think that is the opposite of what people think1|00|0
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