The Welfare State did more damage to blacks than Slavery ever could. It's not even close. It's not even arguable.
And to be clear, Slavery tried to destroy family units. That was an objective.
This isn't the only time we've seen this. The Reservations are arguably worse for Indians than the Wild West was, massacres and all. Pre-Colonial and Colonial Africa wasn't nearly as bad as the 2nd Congalese War which caused the Rawandan Genocide and embroiled the whole continent into a series of Socialist wars, genocides, and famines. The war itself, in combat, seems to have killed over a million people, but the secondary deaths are even worse. Even if we compare East and West Germany, the East is recovering well from decades of Communism (as bad as it was). West Germany has not recovered from Fabian Socialism and is desperately trying to kill itself. In the long term, a Communist occupation can be easily overthrown, and even if it kills people, if that's all it does, you can recover. Perverting the incentives of people, demoralizing them, and then convincing them to enslave themselves to the power structure is far more destructive.
The Welfare State did more damage to blacks than Slavery ever could. It's not even close. It's not even arguable.
And to be clear, Slavery tried to destroy family units. That was an objective.
This isn't the only time we've seen this. The Reservations are arguably worse for Indians than the Wild West was, massacres and all. Pre-Colonial and Colonial Africa wasn't nearly as bad as the 2nd Congalese War which caused the Rawandan Genocide and embroiled the whole conflict into a series of Socialist wars, genocides, and famines. The war itself, in combat, seems to have killed over a million people, but the secondary deaths are even worse. Even if we compare East and West Germany, the East is recovering well from decades of Communism (as bad as it was). West Germany has not recovered from Fabian Socialism and is desperately trying to kill itself. In the long term, a Communist occupation can be easily overthrown, and even if it kills people, if that's all it does, you can recover. Perverting the incentives of people, demoralizing them, and then convincing them to enslave themselves to the power structure is far more destructive.
The Welfare State did more damage to blacks than Slavery ever could. It's not even close. It's not even arguable.
And to be clear, Slavery tried to destroy family units. That was an objective.