She births another child and the stipend is increased. The incentive is to run the father out of the home and have more babies! This is why illegitimacy is at 70 percent in the black community, and it’s why this culture produces people who are the least employable and more likely to be incarcerated.

Kate Richey (Commentary, “Race and joblessness,” Dec. 7, Gazette) wants to invest in economic development strategies. We ruined the Indians 200 years ago with government largess and the blacks since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Studies show blacks had more upward mobility from the end of World War II to 1964 than from 1964 to the present. We’ve hurt these people enough with government money. Leave them alone!

Tom Furlong
Oklahoma City

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