In your opinion, how are leftism and socialism different? In what way are black Americans socially conservative? That community has an illegitimacy rate of over 70%. What is so socially conservative about young women being knocked up out of wedlock by different baby daddies who are nothing more that sperm donors? How is being on the dole socially conservative?
Blacks didn't always have a high illegitimacy rate. In fact, at one time they could have easily been called social conservatives. Here's an excerpt from an article by Walter Williams with his spot-on conclusion as to the cause of the breakdown of black families.
What about the decline of the black family? In 1960, only 28 percent of black females between the ages of 15 and 44 were never married. Today, it's 56 percent. In 1940, the illegitimacy rate among blacks was 19 percent, in 1960, 22 percent, and today, it's 70 percent. Some argue that the state of the black family is the result of the legacy of slavery, discrimination and poverty. That has to be nonsense. A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of black families were nuclear families, comprised of two parents and children. In New York City in 1925, 85 percent of kin-related black households had two parents. In fact, according to Herbert Gutman in "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom: 1750-1925," "Five in six children under the age of 6 lived with both parents." Therefore, if one argues that what we see today is a result of a legacy of slavery, discrimination and poverty, what's the explanation for stronger black families at a time much closer to slavery — a time of much greater discrimination and of much greater poverty? I think that a good part of the answer is there were no welfare and Great Society programs.
If anyone's interested in reading the whole article,
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams060805.asp