Corey Brooks Says 22% Figure Shows Welfare State Broke Black Family, Not Slavery
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Updated · Fox News · Nov 10
Corey Brooks Says 22% Figure Shows Welfare State Broke Black Family, Not Slavery
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Nov 10
Summary
Corey Brooks argues Black family breakdown accelerated after 1960s anti-poverty programs, not under slavery or segregation, citing Census data showing 22% of Black children lived in single-parent homes in 1960 before that share later more than tripled.
Brooks says welfare rules changed incentives around work, marriage and fatherhood by providing more support when men were absent, creating long-term dependency and helping drive fatherlessness, gang involvement and violence.
On Chicago's South Side, Brooks says roughly 80% of households are single-parent homes, which he presents as lived evidence of the policy failures described by Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele.
Project H.O.O.D., Brooks' community group, tries to counter that pattern through job training, trade work, family formation and faith-based mentoring, which he says can rebuild what policy and culture damaged.