The Moynihan Report was significant because it came out at a time where people were still in the dark about racial inequality and a majority of people felt that black people were of an inferior nature. The report described that black, matriarchial families were to blame for higher levels of poverty and crimes, as oppossed to blaming the racism of society. The report was published during the period of the civil rights movement, which was a movement that stood for just the opposite of what the Moynihan report stated.
Aullette identifies the problems with the Moynihan report through the workings of Robert Staples and Carol Stack. Mr. Staples questioned the reports validity by asking, ''If black women are so dominant, and powerful, why do we not see great numbers of black woman in congress, and why do we continue to see black woman earning less than white men and woman, and black men?''(Aulette 71) Staples continued on by stating that black woman had to work to ensure the safety and well being of their children in an racist society. Furthermore, the work done by Carol Stack was of great importance to debunking the Moynihan Report's theory. She lived in a low income black neighborhood and found that the families were quite different than the typical nuclear family. She found the problems facing a poor black family were shared between friends of the community who helped one another which gave the appearance of being disfunctional. As for the idea of the home being dominated by the woman she found work a neccessity by a black mother to provide for her children.
Moynihans analysis of the problems in black lower class communities were influential because racism was still at the heart and soul of everyone in the country. People don't like to think of themselves as being part of any wrong doing and so for them the Moynihan Report was normal. People believed that if racial inequality had been accepted for thousands of years why would it be any different.
Aullette identifies the problems with the Moynihan report through the workings of Robert Staples and Carol Stack. Mr. Staples questioned the reports validity by asking, ''If black women are so dominant, and powerful, why do we not see great numbers of black woman in congress, and why do we continue to see black woman earning less than white men and woman, and black men?''(Aulette 71) Staples continued on by stating that black woman had to work to ensure the safety and well being of their children in an racist society. Furthermore, the work done by Carol Stack was of great importance to debunking the Moynihan Report's theory. She lived in a low income black neighborhood and found that the families were quite different than the typical nuclear family. She found the problems facing a poor black family were shared between friends of the community who helped one another which gave the appearance of being disfunctional. As for the idea of the home being dominated by the woman she found work a neccessity by a black mother to provide for her children.
Moynihans analysis of the problems in black lower class communities were influential because racism was still at the heart and soul of everyone in the country. People don't like to think of themselves as being part of any wrong doing and so for them the Moynihan Report was normal. People believed that if racial inequality had been accepted for thousands of years why would it be any different.
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