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...professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1965 report on the source of poverty in the black urban community. The Moynihan report was leaked to the press during his tenure as U.S. assistant secretary of labor, prompting an uproar because of its claims that the “tangled pathology?? and fragmented structure of black families led to high poverty rates among urban blacks. The three-day conference, “The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections After Four Decades,” began yesterday by addressing the report’s consequences and assessing the current...
...responsibility to consider race because the causes of the racial divide lie within the black community itself: in the innate inferiority of African-Americans (as the infamous 1994 book The Bell Curve suggests) or in the community’s own inadequacy (according to the “black pathology?? argument). Liberal thinkers contend that the government should take race into account because American society at large bears responsibility for the disadvantages many African-Americans face. Their policies on race consider diversity to be a desirable social goal and tend in some measure to compensate blacks...
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