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  16. With all the advances that did happen in this country in the 50s and 60s. One still can not prevent individuals from being racist. Aside from individuals in all communities. there are other factors causing a lot of the problems in America today 1) The break down of the family. And with it the rise of single parent households. Especially involving teen aged mothers. Children without a father in their lives. And fathers who could care less. Too many of both. How to fix it? The only answer I can think of is a return to being affiliated with a church. 2) Did the Great Society and all of the social programs that began with it really help? Some did. Some didn't. One thing that didn't was the replacement of the commodities program that distributed food to those who truely needed the help with food stamps and EBT cards. The food stuffs the government bought for use in these programs was usually to higher quality than what was normally available in the local grocery store. Maybe there wasn't fresh produce but what about planting a small garden. I see people shopping with EBT cards and all too often all I see in the cart is stuff you put in a microwave. My wife contribute heavily to a church run food bank. The people running the program told me that most recipients prefer to receive prepared heat and serve foods. Whole generations that don't know how to cook? 3) The big killer. Job loss. Across both the White and Black communities. And typically the jobs that people can find have less benefits and lower wages than the jobs list to off shore. All in the name of cutting costs. 4) Drugs. From crack in the inner city to meth in the country. And drug use is destructive to everyone. The lives lost to addiction. Not just ODs but the productive lives lost and the damage to families around them. The lives list to violence in cities like Chicago. Let's be honest. Aside from crimes of passion just how many of the murders in our cities are the result of turf wars by gangs over drugs. And every single drug user is contributing to that violence by financing it. Putting the user's Iin jail doesn't seem to work. And if you put the people running the gangs selling the stuff they will either run the operation from behind bars or get replaced by somebody else. There simply is too much money to be made.
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