>I think your perspective is a
>little too idealistic. I've been
>reading DuBois' The Souls of
>Black Folk recently and he
>talks about the cycle that
>was created by the evils
>of slavery. Yes it is
>true that many slaves did
>marry post-Emancipation but many did
>not stay together and the
>woman was left with a
>bunch of kids. Additionally you
>had those men that would
>travel all around the South
>sleeping with women in whatever
>town they called home at
>that time. This type of
>behavior is directly related to
>the destruction of the so-called
>Black family and Black sexuality
>during slavery. Today we see
>this behavior continue in our
>modern day paved plantations.

Uh, I'm supposed to get my information from a assimilationist that wanted blacks to act like European Socialists and spent very little time in the South among his own people?

Get a grip.