White Welfare, White Families, “White Trash”

WHITE WELFARE, FAMILIES, ‘WHITE TRASH’

How many dozens of articles, Op-Ed columns, cover stories, talk shows, and features on the six o’clock news have by now used Bill Moyers’s documentary on the vanishing black family as their justification? Itisasif censorship had been lifted. Overnight, it has become intellectually chic to say what George Gilder said unfashionably early, eight years ago, in a book called Visible Man: When large numbers of males in a community stop functioning as providers for wives and children, the community collapses no matter what kind of help is given from outside.

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WHITE WELFARE, FAMILIES, ‘WHITE TRASH’

How many dozens of articles, Op-Ed columns, cover stories, talk shows, and features on the six o’clock news have by now used Bill Moyers’s documentary on the vanishing black family as their justification? Itisasif censorship had been lifted. Overnight, it has become intellectually chic to say what George Gilder said unfashionably early, eight years ago, in a book called Visible Man: When large numbers of males in a community stop functioning as providers for wives and children, the community collapses no matter what kind of help is given from outside.