{"id":1798752,"date":"2023-01-08T07:34:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T12:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1798752"},"modified":"2023-01-08T07:36:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T12:36:04","slug":"kendall-qualls-black-families-need-fathers-not-reparations-for-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kendall-qualls-black-families-need-fathers-not-reparations-for-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendall Qualls: Black Families Need Fathers \u2014 Not Reparations For Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkendall-qualls-black-families-need-fathers-not-reparations-for-slavery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1798752&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><br \/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Leave It does Elon Musk To <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1602257284062511104\">tweet<\/a> A message that perfectly captures the truth regarding reparations for slavery At The push for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/05\/ny-lawmakers-push-for-slavery-reparations-for-black-residents\/\">reparations is gaining steam nationwide<\/a>, Musk\u2019s mid-December missive \u2014 \u201cIt is easy to fool people, but it is almost impossible to convince people that they have been fooled\u201d \u2014 has never felt more relevant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over Over the past 50 years, many have been fooled by self-proclaimed black leaders and progressives. Americans. They\u2019ve fooled them into believing that the economic, health, and educational disparities plaguing our community are the result of racial injustices, white privilege and systemic racism. For this foolish crowd, the reparations movement \u2014 which this week gained traction with the formation of a Reparations Commission My hometown of St. Paul, Minn. \u2014 is yet another effort to obscure the real ailments impacting blacks while siphoning off billions of dollars toward themselves and an never-ending class of government dependent families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/sen-moynihan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sen-moynihan.jpg\" alt=\"More than one-half century ago, legendary New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (above in 1966) spoke of a \" crisis  style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>More Legendary began more than a half century ago New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Above in 1996) I spoke of a \u201ccrisis\u201d of single-parenthood in black communities\u2014a crisis far more dire today.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bettmann Archive<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg\" alt=\"A key consequence of fatherless black homes is underachievement in education.  In Chicago, for instance, just 14% of black students in the public school system passed basic reading tests.\" class=\"wp-image-25232406\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/chicago-public-school.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Underachievement in education is a key consequence of fatherless black families.  In ChicagoFor example, only 14% of black students in public schools passed basic reading tests. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rather Black must be compensated. Americans should seek legal damages from left-wing institutions \u2014 along with their allies in the media and academia \u2014 who\u2019ve helped destroy the black family while producing a culture of pervasive victimhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because despite their very real consequences, the biggest cause of black inequality isn\u2019t slavery or red-lining or Jim Crow \u2014 it\u2019s our community\u2019s dependency on social welfare programs and the fatherless families they continue to subsidize. Established As part of Pres. Johnson\u2019s \u201cGreat Society,\u201d These programs were instrumental in the dissolution and dissolution of the traditional black family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/baltimore-school.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/baltimore-school.jpg\" alt=\"In Baltimore, the situation is better; 37% of black students read at grade level.  Charter and private schools are an answer to this problem, if only they weren&#039;t discouraged by powerful (and progressive) teachers&#039; unions.\" class=\"wp-image-25232409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/baltimore-school.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/baltimore-school.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/baltimore-school.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>In BaltimoreThe situation is much better for black students: 37% of them read at grade level.  Charter and private schools are an answer to this problem, if only they weren\u2019t discouraged by powerful (and progressive) teachers\u2019 unions.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/patrice-cullors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/patrice-cullors.jpg\" alt=\"Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors acquired a multi-million dollar portfolio of posh properties during her time leading the social justice organization. BLM supports the reparations movement.\" class=\"wp-image-25232415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/patrice-cullors.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/patrice-cullors.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/patrice-cullors.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors During her tenure as leader of the social Justice Organization, she amassed a multi-million-dollar portfolio containing posh properties. BLM supports reparations movements. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Taylor Jewell\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1965, the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/an-analysis-of-out-of-wedlock-births-in-the-united-states\/\">called the then 24% <\/a>Unmarried birth rate in the Black community \u201ccrisis.\u201d Moynihan At the time, I wrote that \u201ca national effort towards the problems of Negro Americans must be directed towards the question of family structure . . . the object should be to strengthen the Negro family so as to enable it to raise and support its members as do other families.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/77-black-births-to-single-moms-49-for-hispanic-immigrants\">approximately 80% of black families<\/a> are led by a single parent \u2014 almost always a mother without a husband. Enabled By welfare and other \u201cGreat Society\u201d Handouts, low academic scores, high incarceration and high unemployment all confirm the negative impact that progressive policies have had upon blacks. America. They\u2019re policies that reparations \u2014 yet another form of hand-out \u2014 will not fix until fathers once again lead black homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/luxury-home.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/luxury-home.jpg\" alt=\"This $6 million home is the splashiest spread among Cullors&#039; collection; despite hosting Cullors&#039; own son&#039;s birthday party, BLM leaders insist the estate is solely used for official purposes.\" class=\"wp-image-25232418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/luxury-home.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/luxury-home.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/luxury-home.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>This $6 million home is the most expensive spread of all Cullors\u2019 collection; despite hosting Cullors\u2019 own son\u2019s birthday party, BLM leaders insist the estate is solely used for official purposes. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ringo Chiu NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/harlem-70s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/harlem-70s.jpg\" alt=\"A street scene from Harlem in 1970, a neighborhood where the author was partially raised by his single mother decades ago.\" class=\"wp-image-25232425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/harlem-70s.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/harlem-70s.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/harlem-70s.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Street scene taken from Harlem 1970. This was the neighborhood where the author was raised by his single mother many decades ago. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>IndeedWe cannot ignore the legacy of generations upon decades of fatherless families. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/30\/black-kids-deserve-better-than-fatherless-homes-low-expectations\/\">It\u2019s a reality I identify with all too well <\/a>as the son a divorced mother, who lived in a Harlem In the early 1970s, public housing was available. As As a child, I was familiar with the taste of government cheese and powdered eggs. I also witnessed the cruel treatment of children and women by drug addicts, criminals and gangs. This It is a grim truth, which is conveniently ignored by old-school progressives or young liberals intoxicated with the quick-fix reparations so readily offered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reparations Slavery won&#8217;t undo the harm fatherlessness has done. If This intractable crisis will only be exacerbated if there is no conditions on the financial payout. AndAs Moynihan pointed out decades ago, this is a crisis \u2014 made worse by a \u201cwoke\u201d Black leadership is lacking <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/21\/let-the-apparent-insider-payouts-of-blm-be-a-warning-about-any-cause\/\">vision and accountability<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/qualls-family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/qualls-family.jpg\" alt=\"The author, third from right, with his family; as he sees it, reparations for slavery offer an easy salve for angry, under-educated African-Americans seduced by the specter of government handouts.\" class=\"wp-image-25232432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/qualls-family.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/qualls-family.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/qualls-family.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Author, third from right, with family. As he sees, reparations to slavery offer an easy solution for angry, poorly educated people. African-Americans Get seduced and enticed by the promise government handouts. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Of Kendall Qualls<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/18\/blm-co-founder-patrisse-cullors-says-white-guilt-money-mistakes-weaponized-against-her\/\">while their leaders are busy acquiring multi-million property portfolios<\/a>Urban black youth are falling behind and failing. In 2019 is an example of this: Only 14% of black students are in Chicago Public Schools They were proficient in reading. In Baltimore Public Schools37% of black seniors are proficient in reading at grade level. HighWhile charter and private schools that are performing well are a good solution to these issues, school choice is still limited by, you guessed, the fact that there are no public schools. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/17\/those-destroying-public-schools-dont-want-you-thinking-about-alternatives\/\">progressive groups and teachers unions<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And So left-leaning policies have pushed school systems to produce semi-literate and under-employable young people who are trapped at the lowest levels in society and are unsure of their fault. No Wonder reparations sound so tempting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Despite how difficult these challenges may seem, there is no way to get out of them. Instead, African-Americans must return to their cultural roots, including faith, family, education, and better health for their children. Regardless No matter how tidy a bow progressives tie around it, reparations to slavery cannot undo decades of fatherlessness or hand-outs. It Will only increase the tether African-Americans To the culture of dependency that must be destroyed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Progressives, both black and white, often like to lie to themselves \u2014 fathers don\u2019t matter, whites want to keep blacks down, reparations for slavery can fix every black ill. But when it comes to fooling folks, it\u2019s not just Elon Musk Giving wisdom words. As Booker T. Washington He wrote this in his 1901 autobiography \u201cA lie doesn\u2019t become truth, wrong doesn\u2019t become right, and evil doesn\u2019t become good, just because it\u2019s accepted by a majority.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave It does Elon Musk To tweet A message that perfectly captures the truth regarding reparations for slavery At The push for reparations is gaining steam nationwide, Musk\u2019s mid-December missive \u2014 \u201cIt is easy to fool people, but it is almost impossible to convince people that they have been fooled\u201d \u2014 has never felt more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1798755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4212,5458,5401,6652,13889,13888,9128,3819,3618,12295],"class_list":["post-1798752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-black","tag-bongino","tag-families","tag-fathers","tag-kendall","tag-qualls","tag-reparations","tag-report","tag-riot","tag-slavery"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1798755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}