niedziela, 25 sierpnia 2013

"50 Years of a Dream" piórem pana Davida Wessela:

Czy Daniel Patrick Moynihan był poetą barowym ?

Odpowiem, że nie (...), ale gdyby chciał, to pewnie mógłby nim zostać...

"...In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously and controversially warned: a "tangle of pathologies" among black families would hinder their progress..."

...został jednak senatorem śniąc swój własny American dream w wędrowce z nowojorskiego Harlemu - który za jego tam pobytu miał już za sobą czasy swojej świetności  - na waszyngtoński Capitol ...

"...The Urban Institute's recent "The Moynihan Report Revisited" documented the striking deterioration of the nuclear family since then. Nearly three-quarters of black births are to unwed mothers, up from about one-quarter in the early 1960s. More than half of all black children live in a home without their biological father. Only about one-quarter of black women over age 18 are married and living with their spouses, half the fraction of the 1960s.

White families have followed the same trend. In fact, the data for whites looks a lot like the data for black families that so alarmed Mr. Moynihan 50 years ago: 30% of births are to unmarried mothers, 20% of children aren't living with their dads and only half the women over 18 are married and living with their spouse."



...i nic w tym złego, nagannego - c'est la vie...

...piszę w weekendowym wyciszeniu odnotowując sobie a Muzom treść godną odnotowania.