Mulder Smiled

[The] normalization of single motherhood, and the concomitant decline of marriage, led to both the marginalization of black men and–with an assist from welfare reform–the success of black women. . .

Feminism and sexual permissiveness are moving America toward matriarchy, a state in which men are increasingly superfluous and, as evidenced by the high black male incarceration rate, dangerous. Black women’s economic success is to be applauded, but the broader picture is cause for worry, not optimism.
-James Taranto

That’s not from a regular crank’s blog, that’s from Taranto’s Best of the Web Today which appears on the Wall Street Journal’s website. (The X Files was on Fox, Murdoch owns the WSJ, now the truth that is out there is being published. Coincidence? I think not.)

Many might quibble with his assertion that we’re moving to a matriarchal society and instead state it in the past tense, but to those Cassandras I say, “Be more like Pollyanna.”  It’s always darkest before the dawn and all that shit.