Jason Riley

But what you saw between the late 60s and the early 90s in particular, was a deterioration in Black couple-headed households.

married blacks heading the household and he saw an explosion of single black parenting and so that economic advancements simply could not keep up among blacks because obviously married couples make more money than single couple than someone who's single and running a household and so because you saw this proliferation of of solo parenting in the black community that economic convergence that narrowing of the black white gap in earnings started moving in the opposite

married blacks heading the household and he saw an explosion of single black parenting and so that economic advancements simply could not keep up among blacks because obviously married couples make more money than single couple than someone who's single and running a household and so because you saw this proliferation of of solo parenting in the black community that economic convergence that narrowing of the black white gap in earnings started moving in the opposite

married blacks heading the household and he saw an explosion of single black parenting and so that economic advancements simply could not keep up among blacks because obviously married couples make more money than single couple than someone who's single and running a household and so because you saw this proliferation of of solo parenting in the black community that economic convergence that narrowing of the black white gap in earnings started moving in the opposite

direction and affirmative action could not make up for it. And the Great Society programs and the war on poverty efforts could not make up for it. Even a black president and Obama could not make up for it. As I often said back at the time, is that we learn once again that a black man in the White House is not as important as a black man in the home.

direction and affirmative action could not make up for it. And the Great Society programs and the war on poverty efforts could not make up for it. Even a black president and Obama could not make up for it. As I often said back at the time, is that we learn once again that a black man in the White House is not as important as a black man in the home.

direction and affirmative action could not make up for it. And the Great Society programs and the war on poverty efforts could not make up for it. Even a black president and Obama could not make up for it. As I often said back at the time, is that we learn once again that a black man in the White House is not as important as a black man in the home.

You know, you can tell economically that is not something that lends itself to political intervention. This is something culturally going on among Black Americas. And you see the legacy of single parent families. And again, that's another point that I get into in the book.

You know, you can tell economically that is not something that lends itself to political intervention. This is something culturally going on among Black Americas. And you see the legacy of single parent families. And again, that's another point that I get into in the book.

You know, you can tell economically that is not something that lends itself to political intervention. This is something culturally going on among Black Americas. And you see the legacy of single parent families. And again, that's another point that I get into in the book.

Well, what you saw was an attempt for Blacks, and this again is what you saw in the first half, first two thirds of the 20th century. What you saw was an attempt among Blacks to assimilate to middle class values. And this was the focus of the Black leadership. Behave yourself. you know, pull up your pants, finish school, take care of your children. These were priorities.

Well, what you saw was an attempt for Blacks, and this again is what you saw in the first half, first two thirds of the 20th century. What you saw was an attempt among Blacks to assimilate to middle class values. And this was the focus of the Black leadership. Behave yourself. you know, pull up your pants, finish school, take care of your children. These were priorities.

Well, what you saw was an attempt for Blacks, and this again is what you saw in the first half, first two thirds of the 20th century. What you saw was an attempt among Blacks to assimilate to middle class values. And this was the focus of the Black leadership. Behave yourself. you know, pull up your pants, finish school, take care of your children. These were priorities.

How you present yourself matters. And that was the belief of the black leadership. Martin Luther King believed that. Thurgood Marshall believed that. How you present yourself to whites. Yes, there's racism. Yes, we have to fight for equal rights. But there are also things that we have to be responsible to for ourselves, the things we can't continue blaming whites for indefinitely.

How you present yourself matters. And that was the belief of the black leadership. Martin Luther King believed that. Thurgood Marshall believed that. How you present yourself to whites. Yes, there's racism. Yes, we have to fight for equal rights. But there are also things that we have to be responsible to for ourselves, the things we can't continue blaming whites for indefinitely.

How you present yourself matters. And that was the belief of the black leadership. Martin Luther King believed that. Thurgood Marshall believed that. How you present yourself to whites. Yes, there's racism. Yes, we have to fight for equal rights. But there are also things that we have to be responsible to for ourselves, the things we can't continue blaming whites for indefinitely.

And they were very specific about that. That was very common among the Black leadership. You just don't hear that sort of talk today. It's derided as respectability politics. And people say, well, it didn't work because there's still racial disparities in this country.

And they were very specific about that. That was very common among the Black leadership. You just don't hear that sort of talk today. It's derided as respectability politics. And people say, well, it didn't work because there's still racial disparities in this country.

And they were very specific about that. That was very common among the Black leadership. You just don't hear that sort of talk today. It's derided as respectability politics. And people say, well, it didn't work because there's still racial disparities in this country.

And my point is that it didn't not work because of the track record of advance that I just laid out when it came to incomes and educational attainment. Oh, yes, it was working quite well. We just stopped practicing it. And that is the problem. It's not that it doesn't work. It's that we stopped practicing it. And by the way, it was extremely successful.