Former Florida Rep. Allen West asserted Friday that liberal policies were responsible for the high unemployment and out-of-wedlock births in the African-American community.
“These are the unintended consequences of Lyndon
B. Johnson’s Great Society programs and the war on poverty, when he came out
and said if you just give a woman a check for having a child out of wedlock
without having a father in the home you will be helping them,” West said at the
Road to Majority conference at the J.W. Marriott hotel in Washington sponsored
by the Faith & Freedom Coalition.
“If we’re not careful with the progressive,
socialist programs, that they have to destroy our inner cities, to destroy and
breakdown the family, then guess what you get,” West continued.
West stated that only 29 percent of black
children have mothers and fathers.
“That is not the black community that I grew up
in,” West said. “How many black children will be able to celebrate Father's Day
this coming Sunday?”
He said this is why it is necessary to have
conservative values to strengthen the black family....
“Booker T. Washington’s program was based on
three things. It was based on education, entrepreneurship and self-reliance,”
West said. Don’t forget, one of the first things President Obama did when he
came into office in January or February 2009 was he cancelled the D.C. school
voucher program. No one challenged him on that. No one said anything about
that.”......To Read More....
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