The Millions More Poor March.

When Minister Louis Farrakhan isn't having some vision on a mothership where he meets Reagan or suggesting that Bush blew up the twin towers on 9-11, he is speaking at the 'Millions More' march in Washington. Demanding, among other things, the end to "the biological and chemical warfare perpetrated against our people."

Right.

As I have pointed out many times on this blog, the root of most of the societal problems in the black community is single motherhood perpetuated by the welfare state. A child that is born out of wedlock is 30 times more likely to live in poverty than a child that was born in a marriage and whose parents stayed married.

But let's look at the good news for blacks. More than 75 percent of African-Americans are middle or upper class in 2005. In 1995 the poverty rate for married couple black families was about 8 percent.

In other words, if we wish to fight poverty in the black community, (as well as every other race) we must encourage marriage. This is the foundation of our society. This, above all things, most determines a child's future in my view. Among the blacks who make up the 24.7 percent in poverty, the overwhelming majority are unmarried women and their children.

When I volunteered at the Astrodome after hurricane Katrina, I was shocked at the number of women and children there. There were very few men. This is at the heart of the problem in 9th ward, and it has nothing to do with Farrakhan's imagined "chemical and biological warfare" and his many other perceived problems in the black community.

Yet hundreds of thousands of black men listened to this false message. Why? Because not enough black leaders (or white for that matter) are willing to stand up and say the truth.

And keep saying it until someone listens.

Data and quotes from Townhall.com (Mona Charen)