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The family as we understand it has existed only since Victorian Times, the family as the ideal of the father who makes a good wage and acts as sole bread winner has only been the ideal since the 19th century and it was only the norm in the middle of the 20th century.
Freed blacks aspired to that family model and from the 1940’s to the 1970’s, relatively high wages for industrial workers allowed large numbers of black Americans to realize that Victorian ideal. Then neoliberalism and deindustrialization happens. For a variety of reasons, most notably redlining and its negative effects on black home ownership, recently prosperous black communities, in urban cores, lose the relatively good jobs there and it becomes very difficult to leave those communities.
When we trap large numbers of people, any group of people, behavior changes. Long term planning, community bonds and rituals and expectations of formerly more wealthy people are abandoned, at least in part of among some members of the black community.
Many of the same issues that appeared among intercity black people in the late 20th century have now become apperant in downwardly mobile white communities in the 21st century. In the future, as artificial intelligence along with reprolaterianization of the profession class bring poverty and precarious to now upper middle class communities, we will see many high and mighty leafy inner ring suburbs reduced to shorter, less healthy, less secure and less dignified lives.
Material conditions dictate culture and not the other way around. Black working class communities were simply the first groups to succumb to this reconquista of capital which is neoliberalism. Blaming some sui generis decline of black adherence the Victorian family ideal is both racist and a capitulation to the moneyed interests who have created the social problems that exist in the black community.
The family as we understand it has existed only since Victorian Times, the family as the ideal of the father who makes a good wage and acts as sole bread winner has only been the ideal since the 19th century and it was only the norm in the middle of the 20th century.
Freed blacks aspired to that family model and from the 1940’s to the 1970’s, relatively high wages for industrial workers allowed large numbers of black Americans to realize that Victorian ideal. Then neoliberalism and deindustrialization happens. For a variety of reasons, most notably redlining and its negative effects on black home ownership, recently prosperous black communities, in urban cores, lose the relatively good jobs there and it becomes very difficult to leave those communities.
When we trap large numbers of people, any group of people, behavior changes. Long term planning, community bonds and rituals and expectations of formerly more wealthy people are abandoned, at least in part of among some members of the black community.
Many of the same issues that appeared among intercity black people in the late 20th century have now become apperant in downwardly mobile white communities in the 21st century. In the future, as artificial intelligence along with reprolaterianization of the profession class bring poverty and precarious to now upper middle class communities, we will see many high and mighty leafy inner ring suburbs reduced to shorter, less healthy, less secure and less dignified lives.
Material conditions dictate culture and not the other way around. Black working class communities were simply the first groups to succumb to this reconquista of capital which is neoliberalism. Blaming some sui generis decline of black adherence the Victorian family ideal is both racist and a capitulation to the moneyed interests who have created the social problems that exist in the black community.
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