Why did the Democrats purposely destroy the family unit in the African American community?

Wow, so many things wrong and mistaken in this question.

1) How does the welfare-receiving family automatically transform into African-American families? According to the Dept. of Health and Human Services, 40% of welfare recipients are black, and 39% is white. Therefore, you cannot talk about people who receive welfare, then use the term "African-American community" synonymously. It's a mistaken (and sometimes taken for racist) stereotype. In fact, there are many terrible generalizations here.

2) The body of the question states that the welfare system was established just to garner votes for the Democrats. I don't think this is true (though no one can know for sure what was going on in their heads), and this is why. Imagine-- the U.S. with no welfare. Do you honestly think that the lives of the poor would improve? No. As it is, the meager sum that comes from welfare barely feeds the people who receive it. If there was no assistance from the public at large, most of them would have no means to survive. Do you wish human suffering and loss on them? Do you think that is moral, and just? I certainly don't. Though it is distasteful, you must realize that there is no other choice (unless we reform the social structure of America entirely, creating accessible paths to better social positions for the poor).

3) The graphic at the end of the text. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Republican and Democratic parties were completely different from now. You imply that the Republican Party has always supported the black minority. False. Yes, the Republican Party was established as an anti-slavery and pro-black party back in the mid-1800s, but you cannot make the argument that it has not changed in that regard since. It has. Around the mid-1900s, the Democratic Party began to support civil rights for blacks, a major hallmark of which is the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It was then that the Republican Party began appealing to racist Southern whites, adopting the "Southern strategy (yes, it's real, look it up). This racist aspect of the Republican Party lasted for quite a long time, though political analysts believe it is now over. You can't seriously claim that the Republican Party has always been for African-Americans. There is solid historical proof in opposition.
Just to prove that the Republican and Democratic Parties have changed majorly since their conception: in the 1800s, the Democratic Party was for smaller, limited government and states' rights. The Republican Party was for expansion of federal power and increased tariffs.
And besides, what exactly would the Republican Party do for the welfare recipients (who, as I pointed out above, are not necessarily African-American; but I'm going with your false assumption in order to make a point) when they take away their (already weak enough) crutch in life?

So, in conclusion, generalizing is not your friend. History is.

Let me give you a vision for a moment. I hope I don't scare you too much.
Imagine the large areas of Urban America not depressed, but prosperous and financially independent. Black Americans having the power to pursue their collective will, both on the domestic and foreign scene. American policy being influenced over seas by such. You would perhaps find your beloved government giving much more massive aid to Namibia and such. A national African American Bank on the scale of CHASE. Blacks more then representative of their numbers in college and positions of power. No longer dependent and despised, but now competitive and independent. Massive African migration to build up the African American population base. Black Americans are more competitive and have higher grade averages and income than white Americans. The American prison industrial complex needs bodies so now white males must make up a greater percentage of the state chattel, with of course the resulting effects of higher broken families and HIV rates among whites.
I know its fun to gloat over how dysfunctional and unempowered Black Americans are, but do you really want the opposite?



You think this love/hate relationship white America has with Blacks is bad now? You jive turkey sucka!

If you are correct, then why has the Asian community in this country, who started coming here in the mid-1800s, not wound up with the problems that the former African slaves did? I'm talking about the Chinese and Japanese and Vietnamese and more. Same with the Germans and the Italians and the Russians and the whoever! The point is that (except for the forced internment here of Japanese-Americans during WWII), the social contract allowed for these groups to advance, esp. in the 20th century. Yes, there was always some discrimination against most groups, but eventually they (as groups) succeeded wildly. I think the difference is the INSTITUTIONALIZED discrimination against blacks, including preventing them from voting and preventing them from having decent schools, etc., for generations, set up an expectation for failure that we are just now beginning to overcome.

The same government that you people are so quick to condemn for preventing poor children from starving is also the same government that gives everyone a big income tax deduction for EVERY child. So, if a family has, say, 10 kids, and they use up the most government services (schools, roads, health care, etc.) THEY get the biggest discount and pay the least in taxes. Do you think that's fair? If you want to go after any group because you think they're getting more than their fair share from your tax dollars, then go after the tax code that rewards huge families. And while you're at it, go after the 1%, i.e. the FOXES, while you chickens continue to give them unlimited power and astronomical wealth.