This has become a Republican talking point lately. Roy Moore got dragged for it, but I see it's being brought up again.
"There were fewer black single mother headed families during slavery, therefore on the societal evil scale welfare>slavery."
He also seems to forget that black families could be broken up by slave masters at any moment with no warning.
These are old talking points, that Rush Limbaugh used to say.
Simplifies complex issues, and erases the role that govt. played in slavery and jim crow.
Pay attention to what Carson says
"slavery and jim crow are things that Black people
endured.....but welfare is something that GOVT did"
???????
Been hearing this disingenuous argument for years. People are so eager to blame liberal government policies for x,y,z that they deliberately ignore that slavery, segregation, discrimination were supported by the LAW.