Is there a matriarchy in the black community?

[sakano]

And if so, what role did slavery play in creating it?

 

[Data-Hawk]

Race Track.

 

[Micky Mikey]

slavery played NO role in the matriarch. Prior to the 70's black families were stable. You can blame the single mother epidemic on the creation of the welfare state.

 

[InDePickWest]

WTF? No. Matriarchy is when women have power, respect, and resources like men do in this patriarchal society. We have nothing of the latter. Just because Black kids are being raised by only Black women doesn't mean its a matriarchy..nikkas leave which leaves the women with no choice but to raise their kids (common instinct even in animals but eh guess some (Black) men missed out on it.)

 

[mrken12]

slavery played NO role in the matriarch. Prior to the 70's black families were stable. You can blame the single mother epidemic on the creation of the welfare state.

This.

 

[sakano]

slavery played NO role in the matriarch. Prior to the 70's black families were stable. You can blame the single mother epidemic on the creation of the welfare state.

Were black families really as stable as we imagine them? Or was that just a facade?

 

[ThatTruth777]

slavery played NO role in the matriarch. Prior to the 70's black families were stable. You can blame the single mother epidemic on the creation of the welfare state.

I would include the media in that too, the propaganda pushed from movies to everyday images seen on TV have shaped what we see today.

 

[Micky Mikey]

Were black families really as stable as we imagine them? Or was that just a facade?

they weren't perfect but given the climate at the time (overt racism, less opportunities, and disenfranchisement) what more could you expect.

 

[Wild self]

slavery played NO role in the matriarch. Prior to the 70's black families were stable. You can blame the single mother epidemic on the creation of the welfare state.

Pretty much. Once that happened, it was a wrap for black fatherhood.

 

[sakano]

Well.
I do think that, overall, black women have more authority than black men.
I suspect that institutionalized racism has harmed the black man more than the black woman--it has emasculated him and affected his ability to provide for/protect his family.

 

[filial_piety]

Yup most definitely.

It explains why the community is so chaotic today.

 

[filial_piety]

Were black families really as stable as we imagine them? Or was that just a facade?

Depends on what you use a metric for "stable"...generally speaking though, before the 1970s, most black families consisted of two married parents and they had all of their children by those same very two people.

In this day and age it's the polar opposite.

 

[Wild self]

Depends on what you use a metric for "stable"...generally speaking though, before the 1970s, most black families consisted of two married parents and they had all of their children by those same very two people.

In this day and age it's the polar opposite.

These days, if a black kid comes to school and said that he came from his 2 biological parents that are married and still happy, people will look at him like

 

[NERO]

Black families were intact post civil war and pre-Vietnam war. First they sent many of our strong black fathers to the most dangerous places in the SE Asian jungles and got them killed which created many fatherless children. Then, crack was introduced by black ops forces into the black neighborhoods in the early 80s which took the grown up fatherless children from the Vietnam era and got them hooked. Crime stats spiked and a cycle of hopelessness was complete.

Phuck Cacs.