Ebonics, a 12 year old selling drugs, and the Moynihan Report

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At the time, he was called everything but a Child of God, but occasionally I think about the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

45 years ago this summer, then an Assistant Secretary of Labor, Moynihan famously warned that the collapse of black family life would mean rising chaos and crime in the black community. Critics said he was blaming “the victim.”

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