[pieceofthepuzzle]

Meanwhile, a recent report puts the prevalence of illiteracy in Detroit at 47%. In a report of statistics from Virginia, ~2/3 of African American births were outside of marriage. Statistics from the CDC put the national percentage of unmarried births at 69% of all African American births (from 1999 data).

Of course none of that can possibly play any role in the problems encountered by American blacks... It's all because of racism and suppression...

Where are the Sharptons, Jacksons, and even Obamas voices in the context of these facts? What are their solutions? More money given to failing school systems? More money for family planning clinics? Do they really think those are the solutions? To think that blacks can't lift themselves out of this through their own talents and efforts is, in my view, the worse kind of racism, and it is people like Maxine Waters, and those that populate the ‘black caucus’ who are most guilty of that type of racism.

Color doesn't define talent or success in life. Conversely, if you take any child, of any color, and rob them of family support, and the inner strength that comes from believing in yourself and knowing that you are loved and supported, you can be well assured of a high percentage of underachievement and unhappiness.

[Mr. K]

Jackson and Sharpton are getting pretty old. The black community will be 100% better off when they are no longer consulted as the voice of "all things black"

If I was black I would be outraged (OUTRAGED~!!!) that these buffoons are trucked out any time they need "the black" opinion on anything.

If the black commununity should be outraged (OUTRAGED~!!!) at anybody, it should be at the democraps for the filthy 'projects', illiteracy, and 2/3 unmarried familes.