This is a ridiculous story, but it seems to suggest that white people's fear that ex slaves might outdo them was very raw in those times.
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In the early 1900’s, they would have out done whites. They had the lowest divorce rate and the highest youth education rate in the US.
The democrats put a stop to that with Planned parenthood in every black neighborhood and welfare to pay them to stay home when they are single.