it never trickled down to me, or maybe i missed that day in school. tell us about the things in your book that most people don t know about the history of race in the united states. the false history is the challenges facing large swaths of black americans today, out of wedlock births, the crime, violence, the lack of economic parity is a legacy of slavery and jim crow. it s not true. the real story of black america was never defined by slavery controls. we were denied access to hotels. we built our own. every major city. atlanta, miami, the st. theresa. i could go on. and schools, too. the education gap in the south
it never trickled down to me, or maybe i missed that day in school. tell us about the things in your book that most people don t know about the history of race in the united states. the false history is the challenges facing large swaths of black americans today, out of wedlock births, the crime, violence, the lack of economic parity is a legacy of slavery and jim crow. it s not true. the real story of black america was never defined by slavery controls. we were denied access to hotels. we built our own. every major city. atlanta, miami, the st. theresa. i could go on. and schools, too. the education gap in the south
the population than any other country in the world. and while supporters of the mass incarceration state point to a decline in crime, the data backing that up is very, very thin indeed. earlier today i spoke to coates, who s currently in paris, at the release of his best-selling book between the world and me. and i asked him why he focused his latest article on mass incarceration in the black family specifically. i think family has become one of the lenses through which people talk about african-american communities and this has gone across the board from conservatives, you know, focusing on family and focusing on rates of oust wedlock births to basically the mainstream dilong among liberals and the department party too. i have to be honest. starting this piece, i was very interested, a, in the direct fact of mass incarceration on the african-american family. but by the end of the piece i became convinced that family is not the soul or perhaps even the primary lens through which on
household families 64%. lyndon johnson said we will give a check to a woman had a child out of wedlock and as long as she kept the man out of the house, they will continue she will continue to get a check. thankfully that mother came out and took care of her son, that was one of six children where was the father where was the dad? the rate is 72% nationally. it s 68% in the hispanic community. the city council has been exclusive exclusively democratic and school leaders, and the mayor, i wonder what you would do differently. you were just talking out of wedlock births. what would you do differently if you were in charge of this city? because you are a conservative who doesn t like government
say look, you guys have got to get to the number of the nub of the problem. if you are going to have 7 a% out of wedlock births you are going to have chaos and poverty everywhere. get behind it get the pier pressure working against that but it s not happening. bill, there are solutions to the problem. for instance, what we do at the center for neighborhood enterprise and other groups are going into those neighborhoods and visiting those families, the 30% of the families that are raising children that are not dropping out of school or? jail on drugs and we are finding out what is it that is happening in those households that are causing people in toxic neighborhoods to raise children successfully and we must and what we are doing is demonstrating when you invest in those neighborhood leaders, and then take steps to help what they do to inspire others through change, that s what we we have