[zebra 2]

Very good post. You are absolutely right, of course. I would only point out that you black leaders are going to have to do the heavy lifting to effect corrective action in the black community. In today's PC climate, for a white to comment on, much less be critical of anything "black", gets him labeled racist. Perhaps that's the first problem you need to work on.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I say those politicians are LIBERALS first, last and always. It's time for people to look at the track record of these representatives not their color. It will serve everyone in the end.

[djf]

But there is a dynamic there. Many blacks continually and repeatedly portray themselves as being separate from mainstream America.

Then whine and bitch when someone treats them as being separate from mainstream America.

A self fulfilling prophecy, wearing discrimination like a badge of honor.