Thomas Sowell, a Black magna cum laude Harvard graduate and renowned economist of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, has written over 30 books on the subject, including Black Lives and Social Policy. Sowell says, "The pain of poverty is what got many people out of poverty." Sowell quotes,

"Those who have promoted the prevailing social vision, in which lags, gaps, or disparities to the detriment of Black people are the fault of White people, are trapped in the corollary that these lags, gaps, or disparities should disappear, once those other people are constrained by civil rights laws and policies.

"But nothing of the sort has happened. In material terms, there has been some improvement, but that improvement began long before the civil rights laws were passed. In 1940, 87% of Black families in the United States were in poverty. By 1960, it is 47%, so there is a decline of forty percentage points in that twenty year period. This is before the welfare state comes in under Lyndon Johnson in the forms of war on poverty, the civil rights laws, so forth. Now over the next twenty years from 1960 to 1980, the rate of poverty among Black families goes down an additional 18%, which is fine, but it is the continuation of a preexisting trend at a slightly lower rate. Yet it is credited in the media and even academia usually to the civil rights laws and the Johnson war on poverty. But, of course, it was just a continuation of a previous trend.

"What really turned bad was the social degeneration that occurred over that period. I could go on for days about social degeneration, but let me give you just one quick example. When I grew up in Harlem in the 40s and 50s, I never heard a gunshot. I am sure someone fired a gun somewhere in Harlem, but it was not such a pervasive thing that you had to hear it. I had relatives in Washington, D.C. and I asked them the same question, people in my generation in low income Black neighborhoods. Did you ever hear a gunshot when you were growing up, and the answer was No. I had relatives in North Carolina. I asked them the same question -- No. Now people in housing projects especially, they put kids to bed in bathtubs so they won't be hit by stray bullets in the middle of the night.

"The homicide rate in the years I was growing up, and I was really quite lucky as I went through the research I discovered, being in the right place at the right time, the homicide victimization rate among Black males in the decade of the 1940s declined by 18%. From 1950 to 1960, it declined another 22%. Then in the 1960s, (under Johnson's policies), when all these wonderful new ideas and the criminal justice system came in, all of that reversed and it shot up 89% in one decade, wiping out all the progress of the two preceding decades. You can run through a great number of other things. Children raised without two parents present -- that was about 22% in 1960. One generation later (late 1990s), it was 67%, and it has gone up a little since then as well. Now the rate among Whites is higher than it was among Blacks in 1960. So if you look at what actually happens in the wake of these wonderful sounding policies, you see disaster after disaster.

"You see exactly the same pattern in Britain right down to riots in London, Manchester, and other cities, which read just like riots in Ferguson and Baltimore. The thing like race is not an issue (in Great Britain). Most of those people are White who are doing all these things right down to setting fire to police cars. So you see the same policies are brought in. And another thing that is very similar, and this gets into human capital again. People are saying, you know, poor people can't rise in America anymore. And the data that they use leave out immigrants. Immigrants come here with little more than the clothes on their back. Go a year and by the next generation, their kids are excelling in school, going off to leading colleges, and into professions."

Hilary Clinton says, "I don't believe you change hearts. I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You're not going to change every heart. But at the end of the day we can do a whole lot to change some systems, and create more opportunities for people who deserve to have them."

Peter Robinson of Uncommon Knowledge asks Thomas Sowell about Hilary Clinton's belief in changing hearts. "Is there anything in there that would lead to policies that might actually improve opportunities for African Americans?"

Black economist Thomas Sowell answers,

"Easiest question of all -- No. And I notice that Hilary Clinton and many people who support the welfare state, who incidentally, when they want to help Black people, they want to help those Black people who are doing something wrong; that is rioters, ex convicts. They want to stop the schools from disciplining Black kids, males, who misbehave in schools. I don't hear them or concern themselves about the Blacks who are the victims of the people who are doing wrong.

"One of the classic examples to me of the few things that are going very well in the ghettos across the country and that is some of the charter schools that have come in. The public schools -- the kids are just wiped out. The kids in those ghetto schools often are two to three years behind the national norm and all kinds of stuff. But in some of these ghetto schools, especially those run by the KIPP organization or by the charter schools and the Get Up, their kids are scoring at levels equal to and in some cases, better than that of affluent suburbs where the kids come from families making two hundred grand a year. And you would think, my God, this is something that ought to get a lot of attention.

"The welfare state supporters are fighting against charter schools. The NAACP is fighting against charter schools. The teachers' unions give a lot of money to politicians. They give money to the NAACP. Moreover, if you have people coming in with charter schools, then you don't have the local political wars heels, as it were, controlling all these resources that they can use to reward their friends and punish their enemies. And so, therefore, they want control of the schools because the schools are a source of jobs. Whether or not the kids learn anything is not their concern. I think it is the most cynical thing you can find in American politics are those people who are making themselves big champions of Blacks and yet, who are fighting against it. One school, those kinds of schools (charter schools), are offering a way out of poverty for millions of Black kids.

"Not only do charter schools educate kids from the very same ghetto neighborhoods, but in many cases, I believe, in most cases, they educate them in the same buildings. So you'll have public school 185, and there on the first, second floor, and up on the third floor, they will be the kids from the charter school because they don't usually build buildings for the charter schools.

"It's too expensive. The kids on the first three floors, you know, are scoring down below the tenth percentile, and the kids on the third floor are scoring above the eightieth and sometimes, the ninetieth percentile, and they are in the very same building. And they were not chosen by skimming the cream, they were chosen by lottery."

Ten Famous Quotes of Thomas Sowell:

1. The assumption that spending more of taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.

2. I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

3. The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

4. It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication, and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

5. Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

6. The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

7. Since this is an era when many people are concerned about "fairness" and "social justice," what is your "fair share" of what someone else has worked for?

8. If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.

9. The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly. And number 10 is the best:

10. If Black Lives Matter, Why Doesn't Their Education?

The Seven "Whys"

Four other Blacks -- economist Walter E. Williams of George Mason University Virginia, commentator Jason L. Riley of the Manhattan Institute, Pastor James David Manning of Harlem, and Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson of BOND in Los Angeles -- are sick and tired of Black Lives Matter. Why should Black Lives Matter when neither the fathers nor mothers take the time to marry each other and raise their own children? Why should Black Lives Matter when Black women have five times more abortions than Whites through Planned Parenthood? Why should Black Lives Matter after birth when clearly they do not matter before birth? Why should Black Lives Matter when White people give them beautiful cities like St. Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit, and then the Blacks burn and loot, and shoot up those cities, and then blame White people for the destruction? Why should Black Lives Matter when Blacks do not accept their responsibility of strengthening communities through marriage, social upbringing, and education programs readily available to them? Why should Black Lives Matter when Black women have out of wedlock babies, get social welfare for each of them, and then end up stoned on drugs? Why should Black Lives Matter when 492 Black people die in Chicago one year, 489 murdered by other Black people, but the social media concentrates on the 3 Blacks killed by cops? Pastor Manning declares, "Black people have a problem -- Destruction!"

Mr. Riley warns liberals, "Stop trying to help us." Reverend Peterson says, "Why have Black History Month, Women's History Month, Asian History Month, so forth, and not have White History Month which should be July? Why is there a double standard? Are we still trying to shame White folks for our problems ?" He states that it is OK to be a proud White.

Thomas Sowell agrees, "If you look at Black husband and wife families, their poverty rate has been in single digits every year since 1994." He also states, "The Black family, which had survived centuries of slavery, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state." Sowell also states, "The relations between the police and the Black community are another issue that has gotten a lot of attention, and produced counterproductive results. After all the rhetoric and all the efforts towards more tightly restraining the police, the net result has been that murder rates have soared in cities where that policy has been followed, and most of the people killed have been Black." Remember Chicago? Blacks murdering 489 Blacks will not make the news.

Walter E. Williams quotes, "The welfare state has done to Blacks what slavery couldn't do, and that is to destroy the Black family." He further comments,

"As late as 1950, only 18% of Black households were single parent. From 1890 to 1940, a slightly higher percentage of Black adults had married than White adults. In 1938, Black illegitimacy was about 11% instead of today's 75%. In 1925, 85% of Black households in New York City were two-parent. Today, the Black family is a mere shadow of its past. Let's ask a couple of questions about crime and education and racial discrimination. It turns out that each year more than 7,000 Blacks are victims of homicide. That's slightly over 50% of U.S. homicide victims. 90% of the time, the perpetrator is another Black person. Along with being most of the nation's homicide victims, Blacks are most of the victims of violent personal crimes such as assault and robbery. At many predominantly Black schools, chaos is the order of the day. There is a high rate of assaults on students and teachers. Youngsters who are hostile to the educational process are permitted to make education impossible for those who are prepared to learn. As a result, overall Black educational achievement is a disaster."

According to a 2015 Center for Immigration Studies survey, out of wedlock births in the U.S. by race are as follows: Asian/Pacific Islander 27%, White 30%, Hispanic 57%, Race Mixing 57%, Indian/Alaskan Native 68%, and Black 77%.

How do we tell children that all lives matter equally with these statistics? How do we tell young Black children that they are truly loved by their mothers and fathers when only 1 in 4 stick around to actually raise them? Children are not stupid. They know why their uncles and aunts, their nephews and nieces, their older brothers and sisters, and even their grandparents are raising them. They know why they were put up for adoption and have to live in foster homes constantly. It is because their real mothers and fathers did not love them enough to shoulder their social responsibility. If all lives truly matter, then we need to be statistically clear about it.

73% Asian/Pacific Islander lives, 70% White lives, 43% Hispanic and Racially Diverse lives, 32% Indian/Alaskan Native lives, and 23% Black lives matter more than the other percentages of people who chose out of wedlock children. Single parenthood is a violent and economic failure for everyone involved.

The Messiah says in Matthew 19:4-6:

"And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder."

 For mothers to receive social welfare benefits for their children, they are forced to separate from the men who fathered them. This is a clear violation of God's Law. It takes both a husband and a wife to raise a family properly.

It is not race. It is not ethnicity. It is not racism. It is the ability to stay married. The single parent family has single handedly destroyed families leading to higher instances of poverty and violent crimes. This is particularly true of the Black race, where Blacks only make up 44 million Americans, but generate 7,000 of the 14,000 homicides in the United States, and 6,300 are committed by Blacks themselves, or 90% of all Black murdered victims. Black Lives Matter as do all lives, but we as humans must stay married if we want our children to grow up as socially responsible citizens. The complete destruction of marriage in all races, especially the Black race, has led to this crisis in both the U.S. and the U.K.

Shot gun marriages would solve most of these problems and force people to man up and woman up, husband up and wife up, and father up and mother up. The social media is falsely labeling other people as racists when, in fact, it is the Black race that has done most of these horrific crimes unto themselves. Stop listening to the social liberal media. All races must take responsibility for their actions.

The Black Reverend Peterson of BOND in Los Angeles states that the highest institution of higher learning is marriage. Without fathers, where is the love of the Father in heaven? Marriage fortifies relationships, builds character and high moral fiber, educates children, and shows the love of the Father in heaven.

The traditional family marriage of one husband and one wife, along with education, are the one-two power punch that frees people of all races. For example, South Korea has children in wedlock 99.98% of the time, and their overall crime rate is in the top 30 safest countries. The USA, because of high out of wedlock births, is in the top 60 worst countries.

There is an excellent school movie called Lean On Me. It is based upon the true inspirational story of a Black principal who takes the worst performing school in the state of New Jersey located in Paterson and infested with drugs, rape, and violence, and transforms it again into one of the best performing schools. Playing the role of Joe Clark, Morgan Freeman quotes "Clarkisms" throughout the movie. "My motto is simple. If you do not succeed in life, I don't want you to blame your parents. I don't want you to blame the White man. I want you to blame yourselves. The responsibility is yours." He further comments, "You are here for one reason, one reason only, to learn, to work for what you want. The alternative is to waste your time and to fall into the trap of crime, drugs, and death. Does everyone understand that? Do all of you understand me? Then welcome to the new Eastside High."

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