Moynihan's report

Moynihan was a senator from New York, who published a infamous report called The Negro Family: A Case for National Action, which is better known as the Moynihan report. This report is full of very misleading theories about the negro community which upset many people at the time, and even some today. Moynihan's main argument was that the dilapidated housing, poverty, unemployment, and inferior education experienced by African Americans was the cause of their organization of the family. Moynihans most controversial statement was that the families were a Matriarchy.
Looking at it from Moynihan's point of view, I think he did what most people would do in his situation. Put the blame on somebody else. He was a senator so he had certain responsibilities, and had to deal with many issues that people faced during that time, and civil rights was one of them. With his report he was able to take the blame off of the government and put it on the Negro community. I believe many people do this everyday. We have a problem that must be solved and we are to blame, but instead of fixing it we make it someone else's fault and someone else's problem.
The report caused so much contention that a reporter by the name of Carol Stack went out and personally stayed in a Negro community for a certain period of time. When all was said and done she concluded that "the families there were neither nuclear nor male dominated. Nor were they disintegrating, nonexistent, or matriarchal. Instead, Stack found families that were complex organized networks characterized by five factors: Kin and non kin membership, swapping, shared child raising, fluid physical boundaries, and Domestic authority of women.
The problem is that people see what they want to see and with this both reports, have flaws, but Stack's is more creditable because she did more research, and had more experience with the Negro communities than did Moynihan.
I would say that Aulette was against the Moynihan report. She barly goes over it, and not into great depth, and then attacks it and proves Moynihan report wrong with great detail by using the "Flats" report. I would have like to have learned more about Moynihan, and the research that he did. I can make many assumptions about him and his writing but that is what was wrong with his report, just a bunch of assumptions.