#7. Welfare
The American welfare state has absolutely decimated the black community. Starting with the New Deal, the US government made significant steps in discarding the free-market model of economy that characterized it for more than 150 years. Soon followed Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society, which effectively institutionalized welfare in the United States. The Great Society is one of the largest vote-buying schemes that has benefited the Democrat Party for the past 40 years, effectively turning blacks into a monolithic voting bloc that has voted overwhelmingly Democrat year in and year out.
Unfortunately, the results of these policies have been horrific. Massive dependency on the State, breakdown of the black family structure, and crime-infested neighborhoods are just some of the many toxic effects that welfare has had on the black community. The southern plantation may be gone, but Uncle Sam’s plantation is much larger and just as insidious.
What the black community needs is the free-market, not the State, in order to embark on the road to self-improvement and empowerment. For far too long, the State has shackled this community figuratively and literally. The same state that enslaved them in the past is just as capable of shackling their potential with handouts and other top-down schemes.
No matter what policy the State pursues or how well intentioned it is, the State is the iron hand of coercion. What the black community needs, and mankind for that matter, is the invisible hand of the market that promotes social cooperation and personal development.
Less State. More Markets.
