In a BRUTAL take-down, Walter Williams destroys the Left’s race-baiting claims of long-ago slavery being the cause of so many problems facing black Americans today, laying out the truth – the Left’s welfare system is the real culprit of black misery and despair.

First pull-quote: “The No. 1 problem among blacks is the effects stemming from a very weak family structure.” He details the effects the welfare system begun in the 1960’s has had on black Americans with brutal honesty, excerpted below. (emphasis added)

“In 1960, just 22% of black children were raised in single-parent families. Fifty years later, more than 70% of black children were raised in single-parent families.”

“According to the 1938 Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, that year 11% of black children were born to unwed mothers. Today about 75% of black children are born to unwed mothers.”

“At one time, almost all black families were poor, regardless of whether one or both parents were present. Today roughly 30% of blacks are poor. However, two-parent black families are rarely poor. Only 8% of black married-couple families live in poverty. Among black families in which both the husband and wife work full-time, the poverty rate is under 5%. Poverty in black families headed by single women is 37%.”

Slavery ended 154 years ago. Historically, black Americans fared well until the welfare system struck with a vengeance in the 1960’s…they’ve paid the price ever since.

“The undeniable truth is that neither slavery nor Jim Crow nor the harshest racism has decimated the black family the way the welfare state has.”

Facts don’t lie…but those directly responsible for inflicting that welfare system on an unfortunate black population do…and have been lying for a long time.

There’s more in the article, about how liberal policies and unions have wreaked havoc with black education and unemployment, and he finishes with a damning indictment:

“The most damage done to black Americans is inflicted by those politicians, civil rights leaders, and academics who assert that every problem confronting blacks is a result of a legacy of slavery and discrimination.”

Well worth the read, folks.

If by every measure, black Americans did better before the welfare system, and worse AFTER – there’s only one conclusion any reasonable person can reach.

Slavery isn’t the cause of current-day black misery…LIBERALISM IS THE CAUSE.

Think you can put that across to a BlackLivesMatter crowd, before they torch your car?