it's because we have had -- in a talk about daniel patrick moynihan's report, the moynihan report that he wrote to president johnson. and the whole report is about how we saw a breakdown in the black family and simultaneously parallel to this breakdown he was seeing a rise among blacks on welfare. he said, this is a disturbing trend, and he said, i am seeing a lot of black families headed by single black women. i'm very concerned. at the time it was around 20 percent of black homes headed by single black women. today you have -- on sorry, the illegitimate birthrate is about 23% born to unwed mothers. today it's 73 percent. the reason why we have more is not because of sentencing guidelines for crack verses powder cocaine. it's because you have 73 percent of black babies born into homes without fathers. you don't have a marriage to support and welcome the child. he have the failed politics by democrats who think that they should just throw money at it. our system, not have been in the home, no foreigners. i'm not saying that white americans are on welfare. this is the number of people t

his name was daniel patrick moynihan.sis in the african-american community because 24% of african northern children are born to unmarried women. today it's tripled, 72% that, not an absence of rights is surely the biggest impediment. >> george been commenting on the issue foremost in his mind. african-american single families. >> absurd. demonizing all of the single mothers and single fathers who do a great job and work tirelessly to raise their children. i can never understand why we can't address the structural issues. look at the prison industrial complex, the erosion of is public education, housing discriminati discrimination, disparity in employment rates, the persistence of economic and race is inequality in this nation. those issues are largely responsible for the gaps you see. going back to your earlier question, remember, there's data that shows that racial animus is on the rise on social networks but also the southern poverty law center has tracked the rise of different militia groups, some of that in response t

government report that analyzed family structure in black america was written in 1965 by daniel patrick moynihandon johnson to urge the president to action in the war on poverty. the moynihan report's analysis on slavery compared american slavery to brazilian slavery, which lasted 20 years longer than slavery in other countries. it also compared american slavery to other countries to make the point that american slavery was "the most awful the world has ever known." the moynihan report began with slavery. began with slavery in its analysis of black family structure in this country. the report then had a separate section on reconstruction and on jim crow and the particular agonies that were then reserved for black men. the report went on to consider what isabel wilkerson's masterful book calls "the great migration." the moynihan report went on at length about unemployment and poverty and how no group has suffered more in the employment market than black men. harvard sociologist william julius wilson tells that story movingly and with scholarly rigor in his important 1997 book "when work dispears.

a second pertains to daniel patrick moynihan's observation that we're going lower and lower normalizinghe deviant to accommodate our own moral decay. if you can't fix it, in other words, make it normal. divorce, pornography, unwed parenthood, sexting, whatever. if everyone's doing it, it can't be wrong. that's a little moral. i'm not sure i'm comfortable with that one. your thoughts on this. this whole idea that weiner might just fit in after a couple weeks of this. he puts up with this for a couple weeks, maybe makes a strong third, maybe tries for third but is in a position of endorsing thompson when we get into this big fight over stop and frisk which is inevitably coming from weeks from now between christine quinn and thompson, he'll just jump in on the side of thompson and play the underdog again and somehow come out of this thing ahead. i'm sure that's the light at the end of the tunnel he sees, maggie. >> i think right now the light at the end of the tunnel he sees. i don't know that i agree with what kathleen parker wrote in the sense i don't think what weiner is doing is hoping

his name was daniel patrick moynihan.'s a crisis in the african-american community because 24% of african-american children are born to unmarried women. today it'saled, 72% and that not an absence of rights is surely the biggest impediment. >> what do you say we compound the problem by making sure we don't fund their schools and their neighborhoods? is not the first time george will has blame add single mothers for the failures of conservative policies. >> 79% of detroit children are born to unmarried mothers. they don't have a fiscal problem. they have a cultural collapse. >> joining me is our rapid response panel, author lizz winstead, zir lena maxwell and joan walsh of salon.com. i'll tell you what, i've think i've heard it all. joan, the conclusions that george will comes to, your reaction. >> i want to congratulate donna brazile for the look on her face and not strangling him. she was very brave there. it's ridiculous. we all know it's ridiculous. first of all, the white community, white people have is the exact same

unemployment we feel male unemployment in resource conversation is latest the one thousand doesn't daniel patrick moynihan was trying to revive it or call this a similar program which the conservatives shot they'll say we can't afford it i think reviving the c.c.c. would be a great idea i did it if not then when if not now when. you've been writing a lot lately about the influence of i think her name was alyssa rosenbaum and when she came from russia iran should rename herself for the dreams of coming to america and becoming a famous novelist where she did. road atlas shrugged the fountain head and. you know we can. i sometimes ridicule the quality of her work but it's it's really hard to do at the end of the day when you look at how we can all laugh at sorceress right exactly. what what is the basis in your mind of the worldview that produced what you refer to in the land of promise as. the great unraveling and you know when carter started deregulating halfway through his presidential term and then reagan put it on steroids and there's constant calls for no taxes no government drowned at sea well i think

politicians gathered to discuss how do we survived that very cleverly with dynamism and racism and daniel patrick moynihan with said that as an ambassador in essentially to destroy the united asian and spur growth a discussion between the kissinger a and nicks in. not the black community. but to create that sort of argument developed the un the great liberal senator from new york his mission was to move more important business to the security council. but the general assembly as the main body now the security council is part of the agenda. so it is committed to politics. and with that un reform but the second discussion was economics at is how you deal with intellectual property rights and the question of debt? because they decided the north and would no longer finance development it was interested in so-called restructuring the state of the celtic policy the imf -- but the self was its own locomotives. in with those discussions to start to see the tinkling of the new strategy ordeal liberalism emerges from the south. so a number of them may have the policy but they were not identical. not that they are g

and daniel patrick moynihan was sent as u.n. ambassador to new york essentially to destroy the united nations. this is a very interesting story which i have quoted in the here from the nixon archives. because here you get the discussion between henry kissinger in one chair, nixon in another chair and moynihan. they had read moynihan's essay in "commentary" magazine. not about, you know, the black family which is moynihan's famous essay where he suggests that, you know, in the black community men need to join the military to create masculinity. that sort of argument. he wrote another argument about the u.n. and they brought him in. this is the great liberal senator from new york. and his mission was to go to new york and to cut down the general assembly to size and to move all important business to the security council. hence, today when people say can't the u.n. do anything, they just mean the security council. this was not as it was before the 1970s. people saw the general assembly as the main body of the u.n. now we all see th

i was a freshman in college in 1970, and daniel patrick moynihan called the negro family: a case for national action. and at the time, 25% of kids were born outside of wedlock. and moynihan said this was horrific, this is a neutron bomb dropped on the community, and if something isn't done, this could be horrific. it could lead to greater dependency on welfare, crime. over 70% of black kids are born outside of wedlock, so more white kids are born outside of wedlock than the number that triggered this alarming book. i believe that the direct link between not having a father in the house and all sorts of social problems up to and including murder. i was on the pearce be morgan show a little while ago, and i told him the face of gun violence in america as horrific as sandy hook was is not some suburban kid, it's a brown or black kid in the ghetto. if you look at chicago, chicago's on track for two sandy hooks per month. usually against another black person. yet chicago is about a third, a third and a third black, white and hispanic. why would so many murders come from the black community

it's because we have had -- in a talk about daniel patrick moynihan's report, the moynihan repo

i was a freshman in college in 1970, and daniel patrick moynihan called the negro family: a case for national action. and at the time, 25% of kids were born outside of wedlock. and moynihan said this was horrific, this is a neutron bomb dropped on the community, and if something isn't done, this could be horrific. it could lead to greater dependency on welfare, crime. over 70% of black kids are born outside of wedlock, so more white kids are born outside of wedlock than the number that triggered this alarming book. i believe that the direct link between not having a father in the house and all sorts of social problems up to and including murder. i was on the pearce be morgan show a little while ago, and i told him the face of gun violence in america as horrific as sandy hook was is not some suburban kid, it's a brown or black kid in the ghetto. if you look at chicago, chicago's on track for two sandy hooks per month. usually against another black person. yet chicago is about a third, a third and a third black, white and hispanic. why would so many murders come from the black community