Amala Ekpunobi: Unapologetic

October 29, 2022. Are there alternatives to using racism to explain most of the differences across races? Very clearly, yes. Watch a very disciplined, polite discussion of this unappreciated explanation.

Autotranscribed transcript follows.

During Jim Crow I believe from the 1940s to 1960s the black income rate grew like crazy exponentially even through the legalized oppression of black people black people were growing creating businesses generating income and creating nuclear families at a rate that we've never seen in the black community since then in the 1970s we in in 60s and 70s we get this social welfare system that gets born in the United States of America and is pushed particularly in the black community that's something that people don't talk about if you look into the presidency of Lyndon B Johnson and read some of his quotes and some of his ideas about Black Americans you will have your mind blown and he happens to be a Democrat but uh yeah so you read about him and he ushers in this social welfare system and he actually creates what is a clause in if you are a single mother we're going to give you more money and the more kids you have will give you more money and more money more money we found that this disproportionately affected the black community and black women started to have children out of wedlock and in single parent homes and this grew exponentially now to where we have I think 70 percent of black children growing up in a single parent household so this starts happening in the black community income levels tanking nuclear family levels tanking and suddenly you have all these kids growing up without fathers which leads to proclivity to commit crimes homelessness you're more likely to drop out of high school you're more likely to never see the inside of university you're more likely to be obese and suffer from chronic illness I mean the list of adverse effects of of think that's a huge chunk of the pie I think Black Culture happens to be a huge chunk of the pie and it's not something that is particularly positive live in today's day and age but again I'm not discounting that racism could be a small sliver of that but I think there are so many other things that contribute to the low socioeconomic status of black people in America.

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