{"id":2262359,"date":"2024-06-07T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T18:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/byron-donalds-is-right-about-the-resilience-of-the-black-family-under-jim-crow\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T18:45:10","slug":"byron-donalds-is-right-about-the-resilience-of-the-black-family-under-jim-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/byron-donalds-is-right-about-the-resilience-of-the-black-family-under-jim-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Donalds emphasizes the strength and resilience of the black family during the Jim Crow era"},"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%2Fbyron-donalds-is-right-about-the-resilience-of-the-black-family-under-jim-crow%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=2262359&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>Research <\/a>conducted \u2062by the University of Wisconsin-Madison supports Turner\u2019s observations. The study found that in the \u2063post-Civil War South, black families had a higher rate\u200d of marriage and a lower rate of \u2063\u201cillegitimacy\u201d than their white counterparts. Black families were also more likely to be led by married parents and less\u2064 likely to be led by single mothers. These findings were consistent across all social and economic levels \u200bwithin the black community.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It has long been known that black Americans have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-should-leave-an-open-door-when-creating-new-industries\/\" title=\"Conservatives Should Leave An Open Door When Creating New Industries\">strong conservative values<\/a> and have historically voted conservatively. However, this fact is becoming more apparent to the Democratic Party as they see more and more black men recognizing that the party has \u200blittle\u2062 to offer them. This \u200dwas highlighted by the comments made by Rep. \u200cByron Donalds at a Trump campaign event geared towards black men, where he praised the revival of the black family and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reparations-for-black-america-already-happened-black-scholar-tells-don-lemon\/\" title=\"\u2018Reparations For Black America Already Happened,\u2019 Black Scholar Tells Don Lemon\">black middle class<\/a>. However,\u200d his words were twisted by disingenuous \u200bDemocrats, leading to false claims that he supported Jim Crow laws. In \u2063reality, Donalds\u2063 simply stated the fact \u200cthat black families were more together during Jim\u200c Crow. This has been supported by research which consistently shows that black families had higher rates of \u2064marriage and lower rates of &#8220;illegitimacy&#8221; compared to white families in the post-Civil War South. This revelation is causing fear and panic among Democrats as they \u2063see their grip on the black community slipping.  <\/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<div>\n<p>Black men are starting to realize the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Democratic Party\">Democratic Party<\/a> has nothing to offer them, and Democrats are terrified.<\/p>\n<p>That is the subtext to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-nominee-for-top-defense-post-attacked-gop-in-incendiary-tweets\/\" title=\"Biden Nominee for Top Defense Post Attacked GOP in Incendiary Tweets\">recent controversy surrounding<\/a> the comments made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/byron-donalds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL)\">Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL)<\/a> at a \u201cCongress, Cognac, and Cigars\u201d event hosted by former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL)\">President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s campaign in Philadelphia on Tuesday. At the event, which was purposefully designed as outreach by the Trump campaign to black men, Donalds <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByronDonalds\/status\/1798466080475959405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a>: \u201cOne of the things that is actually happening in our culture, which you are now starting to see in our politics, is the reinvigoration of black families, with younger black men and black women. And that is also helping to breed the revival of a black middle class in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see,\u201d Donalds continued, \u201cduring Jim Crow, the black family was together. During Jim Crow, more black people were not just conservative \u2014\u00a0black people have always been conservative-minded \u2014\u00a0but more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hakeem-jeffries-decries-byron-donalds-outlandish-jim-crow-comments-about-black-families\/\" title=\"Hakeem Jeffries criticizes Byron Donalds for \"outlandish\" Jim Crow remarks on black families\">black people voted conservatively<\/a>. And then, HEW, Lyndon Johnson, and then, you go down that road, and now we are where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disingenuous Democrats, such as House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and the <em>New York Times, <\/em>immediately attacked Donalds by completely twisting his words. \u201cByron Donalds suggests\u00a0Jim Crow had benefits for Black families,\u201d the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/06\/05\/us\/trump-biden-election?smid=url-share#45d7d5e4-8302-59be-a543-78838a52a30f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>headline<\/a> read. And Jeffries <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJeffries\/status\/1798376217642742077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"falsely claimed\">falsely claimed<\/a> that Donalds said, \u201cBlack folks were better off during Jim Crow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Jeffries and the <em>New York Times <\/em>are lying about Donalds. Donalds did not say there were benefits to Jim Crow or that black people were better off under Jim Crow. What he did say was that the black family was more together under Jim Crow. <\/p>\n<p>And this is just factually true.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as black people were allowed to marry legally after the end of slavery, black families eagerly embraced the institution of marriage. On the third anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Rev. Henry McNeil Turner of the African Methodist Episcopal Church said: \u201cThis is a day of gratitude for the freedom of matrimony. Formerly there was not security for domestic happiness. Our ladies were insulted and degraded with or without their consent. Our wives were sold, and husbands bought, children were begotten and enslaved by their fathers.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe therefore were polygamists by virtue of our condition,\u201d Turner, who was also the first black chaplain in the Union Army, said. \u201cBut now we can marry and live together till we die and raise our children and teach them to fear God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irp.wisc.edu\/publications\/focus\/pdfs\/foc121e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>From the end of slavery up through the 1950s, young black men and women were actually more likely to be married than young white men and women<\/a>. But as President Lyndon Johnson expanded the welfare state, and particularly after the Supreme Court held in <em>King v. Smith<\/em> that states could not deny welfare benefits to cohabitating women, then the black family disintegrated. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.russellsage.org\/sites\/default\/files\/DeclineMarriage-download.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>In 1960, 62% of young black women were married. By 1980, that number had cratered to just 22%, and it has never recovered<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Jim Crow was brutal on black people and black families. Black families have always had higher rates of divorce, and the cruelty of Jim Crow is a big reason why. But the love of the black family proved stronger than the hate of Jim Crow.<\/p>\n<p>It was only after the expansion of the welfare state through Medicaid, food stamps, Section 8 housing, and the many other programs of the Great Society that the black family fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>See, the welfare state is an oddly jealous partner. It does not care if you sleep around or even move in with another person. But if you should dare to get married, and thereby add your husband\u2019s income to your own, the welfare state will cut you off without a cent.<\/p>\n<p>That is the force that broke the black family apart: the perverse incentives of a Democratic welfare state that believes black fathers can be replaced by a welfare check.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But Byron Donalds knows differently. He grew up without a father. He knows the real value black fathers bring to the lives of their children. This is a conservative insight. It is an insight that is spreading, especially among black men.<\/p>\n<p>And Democrats are terrified of it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black men are recognizing that the Democratic Party lacks offerings for them, causing alarm among Democrats. This underlies the controversy over Rep. 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