Charlie Kirk, along with economists Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell, arrived at similar conclusions about how the welfare system that emerged in the wake of the civil rights movement destroyed the Black community and created a cycle of dependency. Economist Thomas Sowell famously said that welfare programs pay people to fail. By incentivizing failure, liberal policies have created generations dependent on welfare and increased the likelihood of sons failing in school, landing in prison, and fathering children who themselves become dependent on welfare. When Christian commentator Charlie Kirk argued that Black Americans were better off before the civil rights movement’s accompanying welfare expansion, critics labeled the claim racist. However, the data, and six decades of scholarship, support him. Census records, vital statistics, labor economics, and…
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