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. . . a compassionate conservative agenda . . . include[s] polices such as welfare reform and workfare, to help recipients transition into the workforce; enterprise zones and empowerment zones, to help attract jobs and free enterprise into poor areas; homeownership programs, including tenant ownership of public housing units, to enable the poor to claim an ownership stake in their communities; school choice, to give parents the power of consumers of their children’s education and force public schools to compete with private schools to provide quality education; empowerment of faith-based community social service organizations that can be more effective than government bureaucracies in helping the poor; and other reforms.

Yes. But no Bushes!

And first get the race-grievance industry, the Obama-Holder demagogues, and the MSM employees to speak truths; to wit,

the quote below has been in FR several times with sources. Has anyone stats that show St. Louis is alone in this? That no other city with numbers like those?

Would the Huffington Post allow this if there was some way to refute it?

President Obama's Elevator (Update)

Here's what Dr. King had to say about crime within the black community in 1961, and the general situation is still true today:
Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St. Louis and are responsible for 58 percent of its crimes? We've got to face that. And we've got to do something about our moral standards. We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world, too. We can't keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.

I didn't find the quote on my own. Jason L. Riley at the Wall Street Journal found it for his excellent July 15 article: "Race, Politics and the Zimmerman Trial." After he published, he was accused of making it up.
Riley wrote a follow-up on July 18 citing the quote's source: "A James Baldwin profile of King that appeared in a 1961 issue of Harper's Magazine. I was a little taken aback by the accusation, and not just because the Harper's piece can be located and read without too much effort via Google."
Riley's accusers "apparently just couldn't believe that the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders used to speak this way about problems in the black community and the role of personal responsibility."

Here's more truth

True statistics (both police records and surveys) here:

The U.S. Department of Justice administers two statistical programs to measure the magnitude, nature, and impact of crime in the nation: the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

-- with one-sixth the population Black American criminals compete with whites vis-a-vis actual numbers of crimes committed. see tables here