"My father told me that welfare is probably the worst thing that ever...happened to black people. There was a time, after slavery, when a black man was as likely to have a child within the confines of marriage as was a white man. Look at the census data....What happened? We launched Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, essentially going door to door and encouraging people to get on welfare...Fast forward to the year 2000: nearly 70 per cent of today's black children are born out of wedlock."