[Red Badger]

I'm not diminishing the outside factors that conspire against us. But I'm saying we need to address the issues that we can control.

I would dearly love to know what"outside factors" the writer is talking about. And just who in hell is conspiring against them? The only ones who have a vested interest in "keeping the black man down" is the DEMOCRATS and the poverty pimps like Jackson and Sharpton. If the black middle class was to suddenly blossom like a rose in the desert, the Dems and their sorry ilk would be toast................

[BJClinton]

I would dearly love to know what"outside factors" the writer is talking about.

I'm sure he's talking entitlements, the NEA etc. </sarcasm>