I am one of those few people honest enough to talk about our hereditary underclass of blacks.
Part of the reason I am so honest about this issue is that I spent more than a decade working in a black church and some of that time working with the world of black felons and ex-felons.
That was the time before the hereditary underclass had formed. It is now three generations later with plenty of time for children to have raised their own children to be illiterate, innumerate and illegitimate.
Getting out of prison for someone who has spent the bulk of their formative years in jail or prison presents a unique problem. Such people have no idea of how they can structure their day. In prison, every minute and every hour is predetermined by the institution.
Many of the men who have been released from prison are unable to create structure in their daily life and want to go back to the preordained prison structure. Roughly two out of three of them.
In the 1980s I proposed the suggestion that we have voluntary prisons for people who prefer life in prison to the unstructured life outside. No one seemed to understand that idea.
In some ways I was motivated by my friend Moses. Moses was a handsome, short. fairly dark ex-prisoner who was also quite gentle. He wanted to go back to prison but didn't want to hurt anyone. He committed a technically serious crime involving theft and hiding along with escape from pursuing cops. He didn't have to hurt anyone.
When he went to trial he explained to his public defender that he wanted the longest possible prison sentence. In the middle of his trial his public defender had to leave and Moses was given to the public defender’s assistant. The assistant didn't have time to read the file and began pleading for a reduced sentence. Poor Moses.
A gentle man who wanted a long prisons term was given a short one because his public defender lacked an understanding of the world.