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Yup...I didn't say blacks didn't get screwed, just that it appears to be more of an unintended consequence than the result of some evil conspiracy.The problem with this essay is that it depends upon the official Congressional Record far too much. For the most part, that which legislators say on the Floor of the House and the Senate will be very carefully thought out beforehand. The real business of a legislative body is done in the offices, in the corridors, in private salons and over drinks at capital bars. What matters the most is said off the record.
Even if this essay's assertion is completely and totally true, the fact is that black folks still got a raw deal. Essentially Sec. Morgenthau says that Social Security had limited resources so we had to prioritize. In typical American fashion, the jobs which were disproportionately black were left out of Social Security and its effects on black upward mobility were undeniable.
Folks can blame the "smoky back room" deals all they want, but the votes are still made in public.
On another note, could you please enlighten me as to the reason or reasons that 70% of black children in America are born out of wedlock? To me, that is the root of a lot of social ills in the black community.