HarrietTubmanCane
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The voting record in every disenfranchised and impoverished community is low, it’s a by product of disillusionment.Yes that has partly to do with it. Not all of it. The other part is the absence of fathers mentoring kids to do better. Then the voting record in those communities is the definition of insanity.
The fathers were removed by government assistance programs that demanded that no male be a resident of a black woman’s home or she is ineligible for food stamps and welfare. My mother, aunts, uncles, and grandparents still remember the request and some still have the literature/pamphlets that were handed out during the late 60’s thru the 70’s. No other community remembers or was subjected to such a request or prerequisite. Also during the *** Revolution of the 70’s black women were targeted by feminist movements to get their numbers and influence up while encouraging black women to leave their unemployed “useless” men as government and civil service jobs targeted black women specifically for employment (make black women the bread winners.)
The relationship between the black father and mother was attacked for 400 years during American slavery as well. Black men were breeders and thus encouraged and accustomed to fathering children that they had no responsibility to care for, not to mention the pain of losing them to sale or auction after you have actually bonded with your children. These occurrences justifiably discouraged doing so. Marriage was also against the law for black people for 400 years. Imagine that.
Then you have the 80’s “War on Drugs” that federally funded the over policing and racial profiling of black communities leading to phenomena like the Prison Industrial Complex, the Iran Contra Affair (the story of the real Freeway Ricky Ross), and incidents like Mena, Arkansas where planes were caught being flown in to transport cocaine into black neighborhoods. The “War on Drugs” was the single most damaging legislation designed to remove black men from their households and put them in prisons. Super Predators, Mandatory Minimums, and Three Strike Laws, Stop and Frisk, and Stand Your Ground laws etc all War on Black Father’s and his place in the black family.
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