The Welfare State didn't destroy African-American families, the War on Drugs did

[HotRocks]

Really interesting article that argues the decline of the African-American family was largely due to so many black males being targeted by the War on Drugs and that the economic and social decline of black families came as a result of that. Tons of data and a few charts thrown in, http://tremblethedevil.com/?p=1693">an American nightmare:

If the War on Drugs didn’t directly precipitate the Welfare State and the destruction of the American black family, why did welfare aid to families spike in lockstep with our prison population right as that War started? Well, if you’re familiar American drug laws, it shouldn’t surprise you that some 90% of those arrested under the Rockefeller Drug Laws in the years after its passage were minorities.

Sure, correlation doesn’t prove causation – but when you stop a moment and consider that marriage requires an eligible male, it’s not that hard to figure out why the modern Welfare State emerged in tandem with our War on Drugs, as it’s a little bit difficult to marry someone behind bars.

A black male born in 1974 had a 13.4% chance of going to prison at some point in his life, while a white male had just a 2.2% chance. And it’s not like this trend got any better, by 1991 the odds a black male would spend time in prison had ballooned to 29%, while the odds a white male would end up in the clink had only increased to 4.4%

And it’s not at all difficult to see how the reduction in marriageable males affected the rate of black marriages in America. In the decade prior to the start of the War on Drugs, the first decade of the Public Welfare Amendments, the percentage of marriage African-American women roughly followed the national trend and declined proportionally by less than 6% – but then in the ’70s as the War on Drugs raged, that proportional decline tripled to nearly 18%

[Autumn]

1. I wish I could recommend this a million times.

K/R

[ixion]

4. me, too

because it's the Truth.

[Demeter]

2. And the Military Industrial Corporate Complex Destroyed the Rest

[randr]

3. The supply of drugs into urban black neighborhoods and poor white rural areas

is what fuels the war on drugs. I have long suspected that this supply is manipulated to perpetuate the drug war "industrial complex".
As is always the case, follow the money. Even the for profit penal system gains from addiction.

[Raster]

9. This is the post I want to recommend a thousand times over!

The "War on Drugs" is a coordinated effort to: (1) mostly affect the "least desirables"; and (2) serve as justification for the rampant militarization of American law enforcement.

[DCKit]

13. Filling for-profit prisons and prison labor belong somewhere in your post as well.

The legal system (defense lawyers) hasn't suffered either.

Finally, the size of the DEA, ATF and local police forces has ballooned, as well. They've got every intention to holding on to their staffing levels and growing their budgets.

[Raster]

15. Absolutely! For-profit prisons and their forced labor ARE FUCKING EVIL!

The War on Drugs was NEVER about keeping the population safe. It's always been about profit and power.

[Doctor_J]

5. And don't think it was an accident

it was genocide

[raccoon]

6. K&R! nt

[Overseas]

7. K&R.

[Uncle Joe]

8. This is an excellent analysis, well worth the read.

Thanks for the thread, HotRocks.

[earcandle]

10. And the lack of management on the part of WH and Congress to do its job.

"Accounting for Government and Nonprofit Entities "
MacGraw Hill Co. 2007
Posted by earcandle in Latest Breaking News
Mon Aug 15th 2011, 08:53 PM
Earl R. Wilson; Susan C. Kattelus; Jacqueline L. Reck C)2007
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data:

IBSN-13: 978-0-07-310095-1

IBSN-10: 0-07-310095-1

Wilson, Earl R., 1939.

Jacqueline L. Reck 14th Edition (2007)


Chapter 3, pg 75; 6 Para. Heading: TAXES

" Taxes are of particular importance because (1) They
provide a large portion of the revenue of governmental units
on all levels and
(2) they are compulsory contributions to the cost of
government, whether the affected taxpayer approves or
disapproves of the taxes.

Ad valorem (based on value) property taxes area mainstay of
financing for many local governments but are not used as a
source of revenue
by many state governments or by the federal government. Ad
valorem taxes may be levied against real property and personal
property. SOme property taxes are levied on a basis other than
property values, one illustration being the tax on some kinds
of financial institutions in relation to the deposits aat a
specified date. Other kinds of taxes are sales taxes, income
taxes, gross receipts taxes, death and gift taxes, and
interest and penalties on delinquent taxes."

[butterfly77]

11. Kicked&Recommended...

[HotRocks]

12. holy crap, thanks guys

Wow, I just caught this on Reddit and thought it was worth passing along... do you guys know of any other forums where they might think it's worth a read? Seems like an important message to spread, especially given what just went down in the UK. (And Tunisia, and Yemen, and Egypt, and Syria...)

[Enthusiast]

14. K&R

Of course RW hate talkers like Limbaugh would dispute this. But we know the truth.

[RainDog]

16. kick n/t

[Dan Burdick]

17. Social planners destroy Community and Social Movements

The New Afrikan
Prison Struggle
by Sundiata Acoli
1998

http://zinelibrary.info/files/updated%20history%20of%20the%20new%20afrikan%20prison%20struggle%20FINAL.pdf

The RAND Corporation (from "Research ANd Development") was formed in 1948 ... response to a need identified during World War II to improve military planning. After WW2 they recognized that the societal state was important for the nation's strength, that they should use their skills for social planning using their strategic "fact-based analysis to tackle society's most pressing problems" .... Developing "the methodological basis for social policy planning and analysis."

Well all thanks to the brilliant stategists of the War Department! Hey folks, see their fine results!

Sundiata Acoli writes, "The first prison physically designed to achieve total isolation of each prisoner was the Eastern State Penitentiary, better known as Cherry Hill, in Philadelphia, constructed in 1829 with cells laid out so that no prisoner ever saw another person but his guards. This “separate system” represented by Cherry Hill was being rivaled by an alternative, the “silent system,” which was designed specifically for exploiting mass convict labor. Under the latter system,
prisoners were housed in solitary cells but worked together all day as an ideal source of cheap
reliable labor," "By 1850, approximately 6,700 people were found in the nation’s newly emerging prison system. Almost none of the prisoners were Black. They were more valuable economically outside the prison system because there were other means of racial control. During this time most New
Afrikan (Black) men, women, and children were already imprisoned for life on plantations as
chattel slaves. Accordingly, the Afrikan struggle behind the walls was carried on primarily
behind the walls of slave quarters," "Immediately after the Civil War and at the end of slavery, vast numbers of Black males were imprisoned for everything from not signing slave – like labor contracts with plantation owners to looking the “wrong” way at some White person or for some similar “petty crime...” "upon arrest most New Afrikans were given long, harsh sentences at hard labor. Within five years after the end of the Civil War, the Black percentages of the prison population went from close to zero to 33 percent."

So after the Slaves were freed they started putting them in prison and having them work for them in work gangs. When the black panthers represented the best, the brave, the leadership and integrity and intellectual minds of the people, the rich people's FBI Cointelpro program murdered these leaders - opposed the Afrikan Americans from having their moral and intellectual center and social community. They brought in Heroin to fund themselves. Burned a city block in Philldelphia to murder MOVE, and put the suviving victims in prison. (No Due Process of Law there. No arrest, charge, trial... burn them up (Like the Midwives/Witches in recent centures) Murdered J.F.K. and Robert. Put Sanford and Son on the T.V. and the Jefferson's. Mod Squad. Murdered Hendrix.

Perhaps having Strategic Military Inteligence do cutting-edge social planning was not, in retrospect, a good concept after all.

After the dumbing down of killing our intellectual moral insightful responsible creative and social leadership figures and attacking our social cohesiveness where-ever found; The traumas and retraumatazation; Whoever is left in Amerikkka will vote for the Bush oil and CIA men. Barry Obama because he represents "Hope and Change," and is the non-Bush candidate. Next we are programmed to have Michelle Bachman - though the Diebold Machines have it in the cogs and wheels too. After all the anti black and anti woman history of the World it could seem subliminally... or Tacitly (may Not be spoken of! Verboten!) an insult and emasculation of Amerikas white male... in historic and world perspective... to have a Negro as President... and then a WOMAN... Think of this from an 1876 perspective.

BUT from a progressive Modern 1976 perspective these People becoming elected is No Such Psychological Social thing what-so-ever.

It is Psychosocially perfectly fine - as long as these people are
Inspiring Progressive's who represent the Civil Rights and American Black Community and the Welfare of the whole Social Community; and the Woman in question represents the modern Women's Rights Movement as well as being a positive progressive leader for the community across the board.

That they are synthesised frauds, represent the Rich, present false planned psy-op facades, and do not represent the Civil Right's/Black Movement, ("Change You Can Believe In." Vilsack for Secretary of the Interior; Sending remote remotely guided bombs into other people's Nations to Murder, without due process of Law, selected victims and whoever is nearby...) the People's Social Change Movement, The Woman's Right's Movement -
nullifies that.

So the Psychic Psy-op knots are twisted, in our subconscious and conscious minds, and we will dance to their tunes. Trauma mind and social control. Columbine, Waco, New Orleans.

Dan (USA Native - Some kind of English, German, American Indian, and suspected African Grandmothers and fathers)