"The fundamental, overwhelming fact is that Negro unemployment... has continued at disaster levels for 35 years," Moynihan wrote, continuing: "The effect of recession unemployment on divorces further illustrates the economic roots of the problem".
His assumption was that Negroes were citizens, just like anyone else.
What has happened in the cities, he says, is that Negroes and Latins have had their lives subordinated to patterns that are alien to what might be called their cultural subconscious.
The answer, in blunt speech, is that the Negro race, as a race, has not earned equality.
"To me, the news is that a Negro family is featured, and they're not choppin' cotton and they're not on relief, but they're part of what some people consider the mainstream of American life".
One reason for relaxation of tension in Tuskegee is that moderate Negroes, led by Prof. Charles G. Gomillion of Tuskegee Institute, did not permit this to happen.
In 1935, W.E.B. DuBois's "Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880" poutthatone that ofe of the major themes that American children were being taught in textbooks about that period was that "all Negroes were lazy, dishonest and extravagant".
What happened is that Negroes want to be treated like men".
His view was that Negroes are people like anybody else and it was the view of the Negro woman who had cooked for his family that he had accepted.
The failure to make an arrest has been especially marked in cases in which the assailants were supposedly Negroes, for the reason it is said, that Negroes are hard to identify.
