How Did The Great Society Help African Americans

Proposal There has been many debates on the great society whether it has helped African Americans or have caused harm. The great society was proposed by Lyndon B. Johnson, and the act tried to stop discrimination by introducing voting rights act. The great society also helped Americans with medicare and welfare. Lyndon B. Johnson said it would end poverty and racial injustice, also it would rebuild the entire urban United States while preventing boredom and restlessness. In 1964, seventy six percent of Americans believed in government and now only nineteen percent of Americans believe in government. The Great society has not only failed, but it contributed to America’s fundamental problem of laziness. People have feeded of the welfare that great society provides, and it has made it harder for Africans
Liberals have provided African Americans with welfare and it has caused violence, educational disparity, low income etc. A half-century ago, the Great Society promised to complete the civil rights revolution by pulling African-Americans from poverty. In Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed, Jason Riley, he explains how poverty programs have succeeded politically by failing socially. Riley states “more than 70 percent of black children are born to unwed mothers. Only 16 percent of black households are married couples with children, the lowest of any racial group in the United States.” also the great hopes placed in education as a path to the middle class were stopped by the virulence of a ghetto culture nurtured by family breakdown. About forty percent of African Americans are on welfare and others are barely over poverty line. By giving welfare and aid to African Americans it has made it harder for them to succeed. Since they receive money from government which causes them not to look for work and make their own