
Not Buying It: Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America
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African American History, Growth and Prosperity
Despite the grand myth that black economic progress began with the passage of the civil rights laws, the fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87 % in 19 forty to forty seven% by 19 60. Nearly a hundred years of the supposed legacy of slavery found most black children raised in two parent families. But 30 years after, the liberal welfare state found the great majority of black children being raised by a single parent. And so this is just staggering. There is a century of african american history, growth and prosperity. Nobody knows about it. Ikno. So i i rely an and my trust is inahe invnt inventiveness of can i go back to a point
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