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[–] Sikozen 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Why are 60% of black families on welfare?

Because we allow everyone to be on welfare forever, and since no new skills are learned to pass on to their children it creates generations of people learning to live with less as the norm. (And to compensate for it - usually by theft or learning to abuse the system.)

There is free money and food every month, so for a few days they have bread and circuses before falling back to shiftless bored behavior. (Crime, abuse to self and others, dangerous sex, etc. This is not a race thing, this is a bored human thing. It's normal in most poverty stricken areas because basics are provided for them by government agencies so there is no reason for people to do anything besides what they want to do. If given the choice, people would not want to work from someone else, take orders from other people, get reprimanded for mistakes, etc.)

This leads to babies having babies - kids too young to take care of themselves suddenly taking care of new life. For girls, there are programs to participate in that require the baby. (Like WIC: Women, Infants, and Children.) Men don't have that, so really aside from the stigma of being a deadbeat dad there's no reason to do something you don't want to do like lose out on Xbox time to watch a crying, smelly baby. And being a deadbeat dad isn't what it used to be anymore than being a neglectful mom is/was. People make excuses for them now to protect them from the social shame that used to drive people to be better and succeed.