I Have to Get This Off My Chest, Any Italian Who is a Bigot is More of an Asshole Than Anyone Else

[Ken Burch]

112. This doesn't relate to Watergate, however.

Moynihan knew that Nixon had based his entire career on implacable hostility to the very idea of federal social programs.

He knew that his Report slandering black mothers had been playing a major role in the conservative arguments against the Great Society programs.

He would also have been aware that the major part of Nixon's re-election strategy was an all-out effort to win over the people who voted for George Wallace in 1968.

My posts were not "full of crap", and I said and did nothing to merit personal abuse from you. You asked for sources, I provided them.

Ask any older, politically involved African-American person about Moynihan and his effects on black community and on the poor of all races. The black community was calling out Moynihan's findings as flawed and damaging when they were released.

If the problem was single-parent families, the cause of the problem was the ban on assistance to two-parent families, not the existence of social programs. And it was obvious even at the time that illegitimacy was never caused by anti--poverty programs.. People of color were pointing those things out at the time, but nobody would listen to them.

What I'm working from is NOT a RW version of 1960s-1970s history. The RW didn't criticize Moynihan's findings, it embraced them, and it used those findings to underpin what has now been half-a-century of collectively dehumanizing the poor, racializing poverty-equating it with blackness and blaming it on the black community, despite the fact the largest single group of poor people are poor Southern whites and despite the fact that there is nothing solely intrinsic to black culture about the causes of poverty-and using those flawed, discredited findings to justify what has now been half-a-century of unending budgetary war against the poor of all races in this country.

I'm not using RW talking points-I'm following humbly and respectfully in the tradition of people like(in no order of prominence)Michael Harrington, Tom Hayden in his Newark years, Dr. King, Jesse Jackson, RFK, and Barack Obama in his time as a community organizer.

It's never RW to point out any situation in which the poor and people of color are treated unjustly.