re: #342 Obdicut

I do think, however, that Moynihan was wrong, or simplistic, or didn’t identify correctly the root causes of that disintegration of black families that he identified. But I don’t think the ideas were racist. He was concerned about what he saw as a pathology, and his solution was that he wanted blacks to have better access to jobs.

I agree with that.

Moynihan was probably more guilty of ‘paternalism’ than anything else.

That said, today criticism of that type by an ‘outsider’ would be considered racism today.