{"id":2261512,"date":"2024-06-06T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/outrage-erupts-over-black-republican-who-says-black-family-was-in-better-shape-during-jim-crow-hes-right\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:58:45","slug":"outrage-erupts-over-black-republican-who-says-black-family-was-in-better-shape-during-jim-crow-hes-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/outrage-erupts-over-black-republican-who-says-black-family-was-in-better-shape-during-jim-crow-hes-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy Stirs as Black Republican Claims Black Family Thrived During Jim Crow Era &#8211; Fact Check"},"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\">32<\/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%2Foutrage-erupts-over-black-republican-who-says-black-family-was-in-better-shape-during-jim-crow-hes-right%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=2261512&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--><p>The \u200bsummary of the text covers political news about Donald Trump sending vetting materials to potential VP \u2062nominees. It includes a discussion on historical data regarding black family structures, contrasting past and present\u2064 trends,\u200d and highlights a controversy surrounding \u2062Byron \u200cDonalds&#8217; comments on black communities. The Democratic Party&#8217;s response and the \u200bensuing debate\u200d on social issues are also mentioned.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-d-c-doldrums\/\" title=\"The D.C. Doldrums\">big political news<\/a> last night was that Donald Trump has supposedly started <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-vp-paperwork-vetting-b1e21a7e9eae7141c4f144735671b330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sending<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u201cvetting materials\u201d and questionnaires to a variety of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newt-gingrich-wants-trump-stefanik-ticket\/\" title=\"Gingrich supports Trump-Stefanik pairing\">potential vice presidential nominees<\/a>. The names include Doug Burgum (R-N.D.), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), J.D. Vance (R-OH), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.). Of course, the list is subject to change, so it probably doesn\u2019t mean much. At this stage, we have no idea what to make of it. Most of the names on the list \u2014 but not all \u2014 are rather uninspired, and a few of them would be actively bad and harmful choices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the same time, what we can be pretty sure of is that right now \u2014 and for the last several months \u2014 the Democratic Party has been working on ways to attack every single one of these potential nominees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">None of the names on the shortlist are a surprise, so they\u2019ve presumably been digging up opposition research and monitoring everything these politicians say, hoping they can catch a slip-up or take something out of context. That\u2019s to be expected at this point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even with that expectation in mind, the attack that\u2019s unfolding right now on one of these potential vice presidential candidates \u2014 congressman Byron Donalds of Florida \u2014 is worth talking about. It\u2019s maybe the single most revealing smear campaign of the election cycle so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Tuesday, Donalds was speaking at an event in Philadelphia, along with Texas congressman Wesley Hunt (R-TX). The point of the event, apparently, was for the Trump campaign to reach more black voters by speaking honestly about the challenges that black communities are facing right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, the main challenge in black communities \u2014 as I\u2019ve said many times \u2014 is the epidemic of fatherlessness. Black Americans have the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Camarota\/Births-Unmarried-Mothers-Nativity-and-Education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">highest rate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  of out-of-wedlock births as compared to every other racial group, by far. Roughly 77% of black children born in 2015 were out-of-wedlock. That\u2019s the most recent year I found data for this. Hispanics had a much lower rate, at 56%, followed by whites at 30% and Asians at 27%. It is not a coincidence, by the way, that if you were to look at a list of average household incomes in the USA by race, it would be the exact inverse of the fatherless list. Asians have the highest household income, followed by white, then Hispanic, then black.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1382-the-matt-walsh-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As far as I can tell, these numbers have held steady for decades. They\u2019ve been consistent long enough that many people have come to believe that they\u2019re inevitable. But that\u2019s not true. There was in fact a time in American history when whites and blacks had roughly the same chances of growing up in a single-family home. This was a period when most black women got married before they had kids. And this isn\u2019t ancient history. I\u2019m talking about the first half of the 20th century, and in particular the 1950s and 60s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the event in Philadelphia, Byron Donalds addressed all of this directly. He began by talking about his own personal experiences with fatherhood. Then he pointed out that two-parent black households weren\u2019t always an anomaly. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeBiden<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepJeffries<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harrisonjaime?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@harrisonjaime<\/a>  &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerrickNAACP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DerrickNAACP<\/a> are gaslighting Black America.<\/p>\n<p>I was talking about Black families, conservative mindsets, and conservative voting.<\/p>\n<p>Receipts are a beautiful thing! And don&#8217;t clip my words to keep lying. I&#8217;m watching \ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W2Fr5uAHE8\">pic.twitter.com\/W2Fr5uAHE8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByronDonalds\/status\/1798454459908956376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everything Byron Donalds just said there is true. It\u2019s not even remotely debatable, in fact. From 1890 to 1950, black women had an even higher <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/family-breakdown-and-americas-welfare-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">marriage rate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  than white women. And in the 1950s the rates were about equal. As the Hoover Institution <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/documents\/0817998721_95.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">states<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1950, the percentages of white and African American women (aged fifteen and over) who were currently married were roughly the same, 67 percent and 64 percent, respectively. [But] by 1998, the percentage of currently married white women had dropped by 13 percent to 58 percent. But the drop among African American women was 44 percent to 36 percent\u2014more than three times larger.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, between 1950 and 1997, the proportion of black births to teenage unwed mothers rose by 166%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Any political party that wanted to reduce black crime rates and ensure that more black children go to school and get good jobs would be talking about these figures nonstop. They\u2019re clearly the key to understanding what\u2019s wrong in black communities, and how to fix them. But Democrats very desperately don\u2019t want to have this conversation, because as Byron Donalds said, it implicates them \u2014 starting with Lyndon Johnson and the \u201cGreat Society\u201d welfare programs that arose from the Civil Rights era.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the Harvard professor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/family-breakdown-and-americas-welfare-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paul Peterson<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationnext.org\/government-subsidize-not-tax-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">put it:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2026some programs actively discouraged marriage\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">because<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u201cwelfare assistance went to mothers so long as no male was boarding in the household\u2026 Marriage to an employed male, even one earning the minimum wage, placed at risk a mother\u2019s economic well-being.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peterson crunched the numbers and found that:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2026in 1975, a household head would have to earn $20,000 a year to have more resources than what could be obtained from Great Society programs.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adjusted for inflation, that means households would need to bring in $100,000 to match what the government would give them for free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In other words, the government was providing a massive economic incentive for poor mothers to raise children alone, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country\/\" title=\"What is Critical Race Theory? Breaking Down The Ideology That\u2019s Hitting Schools Across The Country\">single-parent homes<\/a>. And because black mothers are an extremely poor demographic group, the incentive affected black families the most. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s not to say this is the only explanation that explains the decline in black family units. You can also look at the decline of industry, the offshoring of manufacturing jobs, the rise of feminism, the influence of the entertainment industry, and so on. But no reasonable person can doubt that a $100,000 government incentive to break up family homes was indeed a major factor that contributed to broken homes. And a serious political party \u2014 one that cared about black communities \u2014 would learn from that disaster and immediately reform these kinds of welfare programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the Democratic Party has no interest in acknowledging any responsibility for their role in creating the crisis in the black community. After all, a core plank of Democratic Party mythology is that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-snaps-at-civil-rights-leaders-in-leaked-call\/\" title=\"Biden Snaps at Civil Rights Leaders in Leaked Call\">civil rights movement<\/a> was an unbridled good, and that no mistakes whatsoever were made in the process of creating the welfare programs that have persisted for generations. Instead, the Democrats\u2019 top representative in the House, Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), just decided to simply lie about everything Byron Donalds said. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jeffries: It has come to my attention that a so-called leader has made the factually inaccurate statement that black folks were better off during Jim Crow. How dare you make such an an ignorant observation. You better check yourself before you wreck yourself <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TfxOwHGCl8\">pic.twitter.com\/TfxOwHGCl8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1798375434490724678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s kind of incredible how bad this guy\u2019s Obama impression is. Or maybe it\u2019s supposed to be MLK. He kind of has the cadence down, I guess. But then he starts repeatedly attacking a statement that no one made. Byron Donalds did not say that black Americans were \u201cbetter off\u201d during Jim Crow. He said black families were together in Jim Crow, and they\u2019re not together now. Those are two distinct statements. But apparently Jeffries can\u2019t grasp the distinction. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So he just makes a complete fool of himself, attacking a strawman over and over again, until he ends by somehow embarrassing himself even further. \u201cYou better check yourself before you wreck yourself\u201d? Really? Are we quoting Ice Cube songs now on the House floor? This is what passes for rhetorical genius in the Democratic Party, post-Obama. This is the guy they\u2019ll make the Speaker of the House if they ever get the majority back. He doesn\u2019t speak very well, frankly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Hakeem Jeffries wasn\u2019t alone. The brain trust at the Congressional Black Caucus put out a statement demanding that Byron Donalds <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4706438-cbc-donalds-jim-crow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">apologize<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  for telling the truth. They <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/4706438-cbc-donalds-jim-crow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a pattern of embracing racist ideologies that we see time and again within the MAGA Republican Party. \u2026 Rep. Donalds is playing his role as the mouthpiece who will say the quiet parts out loud that many will not say themselves. His comments were shameful and beneath the dignity of a member of the House of Representatives. He should immediately offer an apology to Black Americans for misrepresenting one of the darkest chapters in our history for his own political gain.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, they got one part right. Byron Donalds did indeed \u201csay the quiet parts out loud.\u201d He said the one thing that Democrats simply cannot allow anyone to say, which is that the policies of the Democratic Party drastically increased black dependency on the government and, in the process, destabilized the family structure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is the third rail that Democrats don\u2019t want any politician to go anywhere near, even though with every passing year, it\u2019s getting harder and harder to deny. The Democratic Party has controlled pretty much every major urban center in this country for decades, and after all that, they\u2019ve only made things worse. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Remember Selma? The site of the famous civil rights marches? The city that\u2019s been run by Democrats in perpetuity? They just went to virtual classes a few weeks ago \u2014 not because of COVID, but because too many children are getting shot. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hakeem Jeffries and the Democratic Party never talk about Selma, even though Democrats have been running it for decades. The city that became famous during the Civil Rights movement remains, to this day, one of the poorest places in the entire country. It\u2019s so dangerous now that they\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-demand-cdc-explain-nonsensical-guidance-that-forces-kids-into-masks\/\" title=\"House Republicans Demand CDC Explain 'Nonsensical Guidance that Forces Kids into Masks'\">keeping children home<\/a> from school. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That doesn\u2019t necessarily mean the people of Selma were better off under Jim Crow, however Jeffries wants to define \u201cbetter off.\u201d But it does mean that the government certainly hasn\u2019t helped matters in the wake of the civil rights movement. If there\u2019s ever going to be a return to normalcy in Selma and dozens of other cities like it, then it\u2019s necessary to first acknowledge that LBJ\u2019s \u201cGreat Society\u201d and its offshoots haven\u2019t actually created great societies. They\u2019ve done the opposite. Byron Donalds made that case this week. And by completely melting down in response, Democrats in the House have admitted that he was right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump stirring political buzz by sending vetting materials to VP hopefuls like Doug Burgum, Marco Rubio, Byron Donalds, Elise Stefanik, J.D. Vance, and Tim Scott. 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