On 11/11/14,  a baffled Bill O’Reilly repeatedly asked Monica Crowley and Kirsten Powers, “Why do so many black men abandon their families?”  He just can’t believe that the high level of government dependence and unemployment among black Americans is the principal reason for the collapse of the black family.

In a porkers in aviation moment, it is necessary to agree with Kirsten Powers, who said that the conversation is itself racist.  Not only is the question inherently racist, but it is rather stupid.  Of course it is unemployment and welfare dependency that cause men to leave their families.  The psychology of this social calamity has had far more to do with humiliation than with melanin.  Mr. O’Reilly must not have spent more than twenty minutes in his life in the company of an unemployed father to ask such a dumb question.

Even Freud couldn’t be wrong all the time.  He said the two conditions required for happiness are “liebe und arbeit,” love and work.  Work suited to a man’s attitudes and aptitudes is a necessary condition for his happiness, as well as for the maintenance of his dignity.  When a man does not earn the daily bread for his wife and children, he loses a crucial aspect of his value to his family.  He loses respect for himself, and his wife also loses regard for him.  The keenness of his mind and body, which would have been maintained through employment, deteriorates.  Dissolution sets in as he passes empty hours alone or with other unemployed men; he turns to drink and drugs to deaden the pain he feels in living such an unnatural life.

The black family began to collapse when Lyndon Johnson’s second wave of toxic progressivism targeted black people for the government plantation.  Succeeding administrations have continued to encourage this dependence.

There is a Hindu saying about the love of the mother and the pride of the father: the love of the mother is strongest for the sick child, and the pride of the father is strongest for the child who wins the race and brings honor to the family.  This reflects the natural, universal duality between the gifts of womanhood and manhood.  Women are blessed with special tenderness, and men are blessed with righteous pride.  When this balance is disturbed, the family breaks down, and children become mentally unbalanced.  American boys, including black boys, who were once vigorous and competitive are now viewed as beset with mental disorders.  A way of understanding this ongoing catastrophe in America is that the love of the mother for the sick child has become dominant, and the pride of the father for the valiant child has all but disappeared.

Of course, unemployment and government dependence are sufficient conditions for a man of any race to leave his family.  It’s the humiliation, stupid.