Changes

African Americans, who were excluded from many New Deal programs, now were the direct targets of the  [[Great Society]]. Single Black women could receive cash payments to have children outside wedlock.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/20/us/breakup-of-black-family-imperils-gains-of-decades.html</ref> Johnson and the Democrat's intended to capture the nation's 20 million African-Americans as a dependent and loyal voting bloc within the Democratic party, now that a bi-partisan majority of Republicans and Democrats smashed the Democratic party's stranglehold on the South, which had denied Black voter participation for a century. Great Society programs had a devastating impact on Black families and communities in the following decades.<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262726/how-liberal-welfare-state-destroyed-black-america-john-perazzo</ref>  

African Americans, who were excluded from many New Deal programs, now were the direct targets of the  [[Great Society]]. Single Black women could receive cash payments to have children outside wedlock.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/20/us/breakup-of-black-family-imperils-gains-of-decades.html</ref> Johnson and the Democrat's intended to capture the nation's 20 million African-Americans as a dependent and loyal voting bloc within the Democratic party, now that a bi-partisan majority of Republicans and Democrats smashed the Democratic party's stranglehold on the South, which had denied Black voter participation for a century. Great Society programs had a devastating impact on Black families and communities in the following decades.<ref>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262726/how-liberal-welfare-state-destroyed-black-america-john-perazzo</ref>  

The term, "poverty" became a dog whistle for "black," and the term "rich" became a codeword for "white." [[Class warfare]] and [[Cultural Marxism]] became the focus in [[public education]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/25/us/education-the-mainstreaming-of-marxism-in-us-colleges.html</ref>

The term, "poverty" became a [[dog whistle]] for "black," and the term "rich" became a codeword for "white." [[Class warfare]] and [[Cultural Marxism]] became the focus in [[public education]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/25/us/education-the-mainstreaming-of-marxism-in-us-colleges.html</ref>

Dr. [[Thomas Sowell]] observed that "despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws and "war on poverty" programs of the 1960s, the cold fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87% in 1940 to 47% by 1960."<ref>[https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/11/14/a-legacy-of-liberalism A Legacy of Liberalism], By Dr. Thomas Sowell, November 18, 2014.</ref>  The war on poverty increased the percentage of mothers and children dependent on the federal government to keep them above the poverty line. Although the number of dependent people had been declining for decades before the "war on poverty" began, this downward trend reversed itself and had a devastating effect on the black family structure, and black communities overall.  Fathers were driven out of the home so that females could meet eligibility requirements, young males' marriage and family prospects precipitously dropped, out of wedlock births and street gangs, crime, and violence proliferated in coming decades.  

Dr. [[Thomas Sowell]] observed that "despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the civil rights laws and "war on poverty" programs of the 1960s, the cold fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87% in 1940 to 47% by 1960."<ref>[https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/11/14/a-legacy-of-liberalism A Legacy of Liberalism], By Dr. Thomas Sowell, November 18, 2014.</ref>  The war on poverty increased the percentage of mothers and children dependent on the federal government to keep them above the poverty line. Although the number of dependent people had been declining for decades before the "war on poverty" began, this downward trend reversed itself and had a devastating effect on the black family structure, and black communities overall.  Fathers were driven out of the home so that females could meet eligibility requirements, young males' marriage and family prospects precipitously dropped, out of wedlock births and street gangs, crime, and violence proliferated in coming decades.