Both knew that was the best way to keep welfare. To look poor and desperate on paper, but be fully able to be self sufficient.

Welfare did ruin black families.

That is not what happened, what you just stated is a stereotype that came to fruition because of this welfare system they created. The dismantling of the male figure in the household was a deliberate strategy used to perpetuate systemic racism and maintain white supremacy. By removing African American men from their families and communities, the welfare system contributed to the erosion of social and economic support systems and perpetuated cycles of poverty and oppression. They came to my grandmother‘s door, while my grandfather was out working during this time they were poor. They offered my grandmother $15 a month for welfare in the 40s but the kicker was that my grandfather couldn’t be in the household. So my grandfather had to go move in with other relatives and my grandmother was able to take care of her children. This was the way they dismantled the family, you can have this but the man of the house can’t be the man of the house. Because of this a lot of marriages were failing and there was a lot of infidelity. A lot of single mothers because the government offered the incentive, but they had to be single. All it takes is critical thinking, and having humility. Your statement is offputting and lacks any credible evidence. You are just perpetuating harmful stereotypes!

Duh foo, it's called a poverty trap 🪤

@@Iknowyoumadnow it is a trap for those who want it to be a trap. You can get public assistance, save up, learn and move on! Those who choose to stay on welfare, section 8 and in public housing are comfortable, where they are at. Choose to stay in the invisible cage! Harriet Tubman said she could have saved hundreds if not thousands more slaves, if they were willing to leave. Staying on public assistance is a choice, not a permanent sentence. 🤔

Or, the system kept making to where people needed it. Jobs going away to fatten the bottom line and other cost cutting measures. The system has been exposed. The little has always gotten the short end of the stick and there are some who don't care if he starves.

Absolutely true! Those welfare queens!

That was true for your people! What about the Blacks that worked -& NEVER rec’d any compensation for their work? So you set in your “Ivory Tower”-& talk about the version you heard about! Common sense should tell you-if Blacks were considered as property & Sub-human-they were not going to get NOTHING!!!!( but crumbs)😮😢

Decreasing because the men are waking up and not nutting up in them. They are raising transformers who cannot reproduce with the same sex. It is just a matter of time that all that unhealthy living, eating & lifestyle would decrease birth rates.

It’s decreasing because black women are having less kids. A lot more women in general are having less kids due to better education.

@@dinkyboss good, you should be a bit more educated, either academically or common sense, so your kids can have their best chance

It’s decreasing because of abortion.

The overall birth rate in the U.S. has dropped since the 90s. But the out of wedlock birthrate is still high. 46% isn't an accurate number. 75% of all the mothers that I know are and were never married so I have no clue where that statistic came from. It's probably more like 60%

This is 💯, the movie Claudine movie pinpoints the hypocrisy in welfare.

Martin Luther King Jr and the big six sold us out to integration for $1.5 million 💵 dollars they had to split it six way's

ok so who profits? Wouldn't the government stand to gain more tax revenue from a dual income family?

@@qp4367 Black people don't need to vote we need to unite and organize and come together as one the messenger the most Horonable Elijah Muhammad said that our unity is more powerful than the atomic bomb and our enemy know this

@@qp4367 Please attempt to think deeper. Profiting may be in ways more important than fiat currency. Long term versus short term agenda.

I work in social services and I can attest that this is 100% accurate.

Shocked the comments were actually open

@@Iknowyoumadnow consider a case study underway at this time.

facts

PBS showed this in the 90s. They've shown how black preachers in the Carolinas got bw to take birth control pills and sterilized em. Etc etc

True. Didn’t expect to see them do a video on this topic

True. Whe southern black people went up north they were ostracized for being a close family unit.

Not totally true. Men weren't leaving. That's a lie that was created

So in both cases the woman picked the wrong man to procreate with.

@@dman221 and they still are PURPOSELY picking the wrong men

Exactly. There are several videos by Cynthia G about this

what's this about a movie, called "Claudine"? Could you go more into detail about the plot/synopsis, please? And is it on netflix or amazon or DVD?

Claudine is a good movie.

@@BeingKyleBusch18 Claudine is a classic 70s black film with Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones..a single mom raising 5 kids in Harlem on welfare..she meets Jones, a garbage man, fall in love, and must decide if they get married, she'd lose her benefits.. It's a wonderful film..funny, heartwarming..perfection..there used to be a copy on KZfaq..look for it..Carroll received an Academy Award nom for the role..Gladys Knight sings songs on the soundtrack...so great..Its still on KZfaq..I demand you see it right away...😅

My mom loved that movie ..She would play that sound track regularly.

@@raczgreen6053 A generational thing..my older sister played that album all the time..one of the actors, Adam Wade, came to my JHS to talk about the film, and I later saw it at my local grind house, The Regent in Bed Stuy..Good Times..

That s what most these folks dont understand that, but they keep on pushing this fake narrative. Welfare got the less fortunate thru.

True, welfare did help those that needed the help but like any other group, the scammers took advantage and made the ones struggling to make ends meet look bad.

Exactly! Welfare was designed as a temporary helping hand, it was never supposed to something to live off of!

@@crw3673 now it is, but back then that was only the case for white people. Black people (especially in the south) had an extremely difficult time finding good employment, and the govt knew this. They knew that this would be a way to keep black people right where they wanted them.

@@db60615 you will never let go of the narrative

Wow it’s crazy how black women can have kids all on their own.

Yes 😮

I think it wasn’t because they didn’t need a man it was because a man couldn’t live in the house if they got welfare. If the woman needed welfare to feed her children it was most likely because the man wasn’t providing. Just saying. A lot of men back then were Rolling Stones and had a wife at home but a lot of women on the side and probably weren’t sleeping at home half of the time anyway. I know because my grandfather was one. He was alcoholic and treated my grandmother like trash. He would even bring women in the yard and in front of her face in the 1960’s. He also had three alleged kids outside of their Marriage one was even my neighbor my entire childhood and I didn’t even know we was related. But than she worked most of her life and didn’t need welfare because her parents literally lived on the same land so they helped her raise my dad and my uncle.

That is such an insult to the black male...the statistic is on public record that there were more black male supported and headed MARRIED black families than whites before the 60s. Black men weren't dogs in heat making aimless babies. They loved their children and desired to father them. I have no problem with the condition that a black cannot be in the home when receiving government assistance. But the question is how did the qualifying of the black female to receive assistance automatically put the black man out of the house wholesale?...so many black men have been hurt, denied access to their children because she lied, turned her back on him to get those crumbs. I saw this with my own mother. I had a loving, hard working father who took care of us. My mother with her agenda to be the man and in control ran him off. I never saw stark poverty until she led the household. I am so thankful for strong black women like Kendra Davis, Sharazad Ali and Love Dorsey for speaking on this. All the welfare recipient black woman did was produce generations of gang bangers because she refused black father household leadership and to make her welfare checks bigger. That type of black woman has destroyed the black community and continues to. Thank God for welfare reform where her eligibility is only 5 freakin years.

Do you believe the conservative agenda is better

And that’s the hardest thing to forgive. The betrayal…..Yes, the black men have their problems but when you CHOSE the worst among us to procreate with. And then expect a family this is what you produce with the assistance of the Government. Feminism wasn’t to blame because black women watched white women being married and raising families. No…this was more of wanting to be HEAD BOSS, HEAD CHIEF….HEAD of HOUSEHOLD.

@@VonSly I think you may have missed the point. I'm not political gangbanging here. Nor am I trying to get votes for the conservative party. What I would like to see is our community abstaining from voting for candidates and policies that are detrimental to our own community for no other reason than we've been told that the other side is (ra- cist). That word is a dog whistle that those smarter than us have used to capitalize off our trauma, and emotionally whip us into voting for people and policies that are more harmful to our community than the ones the so-called (ra- cist) is putting forth. So are conservative policies in the political sphere better for our community... yes. In the social sphere... most definitely. Judge for yourself... which of the points did I make is supported by the conservative party, and which points did I make are championed by the liberal party.

@@dman221 I have studied the experiences of Black Women for a very long time. What I have seen is a group of women trying to survive and navigate life through extremely hard circumstances, rather than willingly positioning themselves to be “in charge”.

@@TheOnyxQueenChannel : Extremely hard choices that they created on their own with the choices they made throughout life. I don’t have any sympathy for people who CONTINUOUSLY make bad decisions and then complain of it hardship.

I bet if you look at the war on drugs ending the war on crime in 1969 and the mass incarceration rate with the increase of drugs in the community You will find a greater impact to the black community then the rules surrounding welfare. The Reagan administration and drugs have had a great relationship.

I think what we were taught and instilled in us, is what hurt the black family. 🤔

@@crw3673 NOBODY WANTS TALK ABOUT THAT PART BECAUSE THEN IT WILL PUT IT AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHERS!! A NATION CAN RISE NO HIGHER THAN THE MORAL CHARACTER OF ITS WOMEN AND THAT IS THE ONE ISSUE OUR COMMUNITY RUNS AND HIDES FROM…..THEY. EXTRA QUICK TO CALL A MAN A DEADBEAT DAD BUT WHEN U CALL OUT THE WOMEN HAVING MULTIPLE CHILDREN FROM MULTIPLE MEN WITHOUT BEING MARRIED WHILE SHE WAS PROSTITUTING HERSELF THEN SHE ALWAYS COMES UP WITH SN EXCUSE AND THE MAIN 2 ARE THE BLACK MAN AND THE WHITE MAN…..ITS NEVER HER FAULT….NEVER!!!!

False

@@peanut2us , there were drugs before the Reagan administration. And black people how problems long before Reagan. Black people had problems with ALL presidential administrations.

I'd say integration did more harm than welfare did. Before integration, black communities were self sufficient. Coming off the heels of slavery, men knew how to build a community and women knew how to sustain a community. We were all on the same page, generally.

@@kimmiet1980 Maybe in the inner cities, but not in the rural south. White people owned all of the businesses down here. I don't necessarily think that we should have forced people to integrate. I do however believe that a black person should have the opportunity to go to a white majority school, if they so choose.

@@kimmiet1980 that’s bs. There were a few successful towns but most black folks were still struggling

Thank you! That’s what’s so annoying about these conversations. It’s always framed as “black women chose welfare over the black father” where black women literally had to chose between feeding her children and a spouse that can’t support a family. It’s like what did people want? For women to let their children starve?

@@dinkyboss There were plenty! And even a few economic enclaves over time would've grown. Instead, people were convinced to want "equality" in their system rather than building and sustaining our own.

And when the presenter (like this young sista) or narrator has the ability to correctly pronounce all of the words written in the script, unlike before.

Thank You. It's lack of rehabilitation while on welfare.

Black men can’t accept that bw went on welfare to support children they couldn’t. We can talk about the reasons black men couldn’t support a home but this narrative that bw chose welfare over black fathers is tired af

If we stop killing ourselves selling drugs to our own then maybe things can change

The welfare rule keeping the man out of the home only lasted only four years from 1983 to 1987! The only man who couldn't be in the home was a man not married or related to the mother or the children! The husband could be in the home as long as he could prove he was looking for work! The actual rule ended because a married black woman wanted her husband in the home while she received welfare assistance. She sued and took her case to the Supreme Court and won, ending the rule!

Well said. Welfare is meant to assist you while you get on your feet but some become lazy and lack vision and become content. Black Americans should be thankful that there's a system that tries to help you financially while you work on yourself. Sadly many relax and become lazy. Many African countries don't have Welfare and people hassle.

Yes, because all that matters to this ONE-DIMENSIONAL society is TIK-TOK, INSTAGRAM and how many views or 'fans' or 'followers' they have. Truly sad.

Sad but true.

FACTS!!👍

Read Cupcake Brown. It did not solve the problem. Her father was never a part of her life, mother died, he dropped her off at a relative and she was raped the same night. Mother was not on welfare. Father left because he wanted to. True story. The best parent for children is the one that wants to raise them. It happens to plenty of kids who are on foster care.

Who is stopping black men/fathers? No one is stopping white men from being fathers?

They do, they just have to go to court, and petition for joint custody.

And is mostly abused by women. And in some cases don't even support the child (the irony)

The father's dismiss themselves

Farthers....

@@latoyataylor403 what about the good men who get destroyed by bad women. Black people as a whole got to start taking accountability or it’s a wrap, I watched my uncle lose a mini mansion because of his wife got bored of him and took his kids and his money, years of hard work destroyed, but guess what his kids still stick with him because they know what’s going.

@@vondamelanin906 yeah that statement she made is wild. We out here already putting in the work.

Willie Lynch theory has been exposed as a hoax. No white man gave that speech in 1712 like proclaimed. The words used are representative of the early 20th century.

THIS!!!

It started with government assistance. That’s the point. Everything that happens today is directly proportionate to legislation from the past. Everything that happens in America affects the black population on a larger scale. When government assistance programs go up, marriage rates go down. Years of that creates a culture of women feeling like they don’t need men. There were other factors that add to broken black families but assistance programs is 60% of the root cause.

@@iammattlucas No the root cause is people treating each other terribly. Because if we were conducting our households well and with love, we wouldn't have needed government involvement.

@@leeluv96 Like I said, other factors contributed to the way things are. Government assistance programs were suppose to help us but we misused the money once we got it.

@@iammattlucas well you said, it started with the foundation of the programs. But I wouldn't say that the funds were misused. Because if they were, people would have been removed from the program already. I would say that both sides, government and resources recipients, have pushed the program beyond the limits and have gotten away from the goal of getting off the program.

That should have been unemployment insurance, not welfare or food stamps. Where’s their Dad?

There's nothing wrong with being on it TEMPORARILY.

That's the thing, the idea of it is great for people that need a temporary assistance. People have just found ways to live off it for a lifetime!

I did the exact same thing. Had my son, went to school at night an worked during the day. Got on welfare until I finished school. Graduated in May and jot my 1st turning job in June. I called the welfare office to remove myself. They said no-one rarely does that and they thanked me for complying. They gave me free childcare and food stamps for a year...just for being honest.

@@Stephanie-qy3ud that was cool of them to do that

Blame the mom for not choosing a father

Kevin Samuels said it best but black women cursed him until he died *black woman choose their partners and some choose wrong*

@@nell9106 and blackkk women cursed his grave

@@aquarius-woman5364 No they aren’t but let’s say that’s true who is telling them and black woman to put them on? And why?

@@nell9106 Every group of women who mate with a black man end up single. Biracial children have it even worse than black children.

Well what would all black men on welfare do? You do know that a large group of black men are on welfare when not in jail. Black women will be fine because they work more than black men. But black women need to stop birth black mens children.

Remain more employed than black men and continue to close the gender wage gap.

This is true... There are more white people on welfare, than black people but white people put a black face on it, so white people can be on it, guilt free.

That's right. Welfare was started to help poor whites deal with the Depression but there was no stigma when they needed it.

@@keivajones1865 When White people need Welfare it's called a "Bailout". 💢

Well here in NYC it was stigmatized that the blacks and Latinos were the biggest community on welfare through out the 80's. But now come to find out, the Jewish community is the largest community on welfare since the 90's. And a lot of European come straight off the plane and apply for public assistance. So it has come full circle now.

@@crw3673 ur right, Charlie. BC the small hats need welfare so they can study the Bible all day. What nonsense...but nobody stigmatized them and their community for being on welfare to avoid work.

The problem is welfare was designed as a temporary helping hand, not something to be used for the rest of your life. The sad thing is, many of these single parent kids grow up thinking this is the norm. Now when they become of age, the cycle repeats itself. This is how you have 2 or more generations, living in the same apartment for 30 plus years! Really sad.

What about women, of all races, who get pregnant just for a check?

Come on, say it again! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@@crw3673 Absolutely!

@@crw3673 Did wages for working increase?

This right here^^^^^^^ is the most accurate statement

No they need reparations. you hate blacks just say it. Your acting as if blacks never experienced slavery.

Your crazy reparations will make a huge difference financially. That will get a lot of black people off of government assistance. You should study up on anthropology. If they gave reparations to black mother's who are willing to get married that would clean up the issues real fast.

Welfare rules applied to all poor families of all shades ... the uncomfortable question must be asked ... why did it damage (destroy the family) far more to us than any other race ?

@@drwalka10 Those that set it up targeted certain ppl. When u don’t have opportunity and restricted on so many levels, former slaves… what do you expect? Give them something “free” call it help, with hidden agender. Watch how things crumble.

Yeah because black men couldn’t support a household. Someone had to feed the kids. And a black man with no money is just another mouth to feed.

But we still need to hold the men that left accountable

This all stems from your upbringing and oneself worth. If you think collecting a little free check, is more important than going out and earning your own money. Shame on you! You are only hurting yourself in the long run!

Black men were already leaving their family's in record numbers. Hence the reason welfare was even needed. Come on....

@@mojadah10 negative! The black family was strong up until the mid to late 60's. Then in the 70's with drugs flooding into our community, it all went to shit!

How much was your brother earning?

one was working what was the other one doing?

@@ashasun6620 sitting around get big, didn't want to work

@@silvercat6425 If he was making enough she wouldn't have messed welfare. y'all BM need to take accountability for failing

The father baby wasn’t making enough? Why did she need welfare if he was making money?

Then they blame police for trying to hold them accountable for their degenerate nature.

@Miodrag Vukomanovic true. But some police have a degenerate nature of their own, as well. The US government is behind all of this hatred, corruption, envy, and greed.

You people create your own problems with your lazy degnerate nature!!! So much easier popping out countless kids you know you can't take care of and then have the government be your baby daddy.

That still doesn't mean that welfare did not hurt black families. And we still have welfare. It was not cut.

Black men are always victims.

His honesty was brutal..but true! People need to be real about things & stop getting offended when someone is brutally honest about things. I love straight foward folk.

He was wrong he was just giving you one side of a very jaded and a very narrow narrative view clearly you and a lot others weren't looking or hearing close enough to catch on to.

@@flyguy7825 it’s funny how you just characterized me and what he said like you were here with me listening to hours upon hours of his show why he was still living. 2 things he said hurt the black family, welfare and feminism!! Care to elaborate on what else I didn’t want to here since you sat here next to me and watch it with me?! 🤔🤷🏾‍♂️

@@flyguy7825 do what fly girl, girl bye

@@tonyamitchell5873 at least you were woman enough to handle it 😏

That man who jus walks the block all day gets all the women

Well that says alot about the marriages because if the marriage was tight, that tiny bit of struggle money would not have been worth it at all. We have to look at the root of the problems not the surface.

To much birth control for people to keep having children that they can not afford. If you are on welfare why would you have a man that can't help your situation live with you. Self created poverty. Stop have children that you cannot afford. If you need food and and other government benefits you should not be having children. Black people ruined black families. Stop having kids that you can not afford. Food stamps and living in projects is suppose to be temporary until you get your self together. Stop bringing kids into this world in poverty. They are cutting back on affordable housing and Trump said something about giving people on welfare boxed food like they use to receive. People need to try to put themselves in a position were they can provide for them themselves. Food stamps and public housing was created for white people. White people live in public housing too, you see them with welfare cards also. There are MORE poor whites than blacks. For some reason black people like to advertise that they are poor and ignorant

Black people treat eachother worse than the government nowadays. The men need to get it together. All they have to do is stop making babies that they don't want to take care of. You can't wait till you've already made the kid.

Welfare rules applied to all poor families of all shades ... the uncomfortable question must be asked ... why did it damage (destroy the family) far more to us than any other race ?

@drwalka10 because welfare is not something America wanted to provide. If not for Eleanor Roosevelt we would not have been apart of the benefits. That's why they modified rules so people could not access them. Their primary issue is they were not robust enough to allow for people to logically transition from them in areas without economic opportunities.

Bych that's a lie because the women were leaving the men

I was a small child at the time,but I remember Vividly,how female friends and relatives would tell their children's fathers that they had to leave the house,in fear of them losing the checks .Alot of arguments and fights because of it. Some would try and work their way around this flawed system. Lots of the men would get disgusted and fed up with it all,and leave,never to return.

You don't know what you're saying. Many,many men got Put Out for them checks.

@@vanessapete1091 Your tryna get scooby snacks from dusties. You dont know what your talking about.

@@chellejohnson8880 This ISN'T about ME.I wasn't the one on Welfare. I'M just saying what I witnessed from Older relatives.Aunties ,Cousins,etc.

They were also thriving in the 80s.

I wonder if that actually happened.

@@ThatDoesntWorkForMeBrother She used all the Resources that were Available!. There was no more help for her!. She got Vouchers! Rental Assistance! Food! Clothes! We're sorry but we can't Help you anymore!. And They Paid for a Hotel room for A month!.