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While Gov. Gerald Baliles has spelled out his 1 for a “New Dominion” in the governance of the Commonwealth, Lt. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder has done much the same thing with respect to improving the opportunities of the state’s Black citizens.
In a notable speech to the Lynchburg NAACP last week Wilder minced no words in pointing out what were, in his view, some of the principal reasons for many of the difficulties facing black citizens and families in modern America.
One of their main problems continues to be over-reliance on government to solve social and economic problems for which, Wilder said, black citizens must learn to shoulder responsibility themselves. Only by doing so, argued Lt. Gov. Wilder, will many black families be able to break the welfare cycle which stretches from generation to generation.
Closely related to the perpetuation of the welfare cycle, he noted the growing number of single parents in the black community where teenage pregnancies among unmarried girls has long since reached the point where it is a major social crisis..
“Where have all the fathers gone?” asked Mr. Wilder. “Almost an entire generation is going fatherless!” The answer to that question, if one can be found, would surely unravel one of the most complex knots facing our social service offices.
In addressing his audience, Mr. Wilder, who is an excellent orator, sounded themes which
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