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"Upon my return to Chicago," he would write in the epilogue to his recently published memoir, Dreams From My Father, "I would find the signs of decay accelerated throughout the South Side--the neighborhoods shabbier, the children edgier and less restrained, more middle-class families heading out to the suburbs, the jails bursting with glowering youth, my brothers without prospects. All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass--what values we must live by. Instead I see us doing what we've always done--pretending that these children are somehow not our own."

Wow. Where to start.

First, I think Barry is right to a certain extent. There, undeniably, are whites who don't care what blacks are facing are going through. By and large those whites are Liberals but they are whites nonetheless.

Taking the importance of a father out of the home and replacing it with Government was an idea put into practice almost by entirely by white politicians. Signed into law by the highest white person in the land at the time, Lyndon B. Johnson.

They even gave it a messianic title: The Great Society.

Like the article, I could go on and on and on.

And on.

But what good would that do? Barry Obama doesn't give a flying fig about what blacks are facing either. He's willing to perpetuate the misery for his own personal political gain.

Just like Whitey.

First, I think Barry is right to a certain extent. There, undeniably, are whites who don't care what blacks are facing are going through.

Perhaps we can start to be honest about what blacks actually expect from whites. Blacks will complain they they are being neglected and whites don't care, yet often when whites do show interest, their efforts are rebuffed, or twisted into claims of racism and oppression.

As white person I tend to treat people with benign indifference. I simply get up in the morning, go to my cubicle for 8 hours, and then come home. Is this neglect? Possibly, but at least its an evenhanded neglect. If blacks would like to deal drugs and shoot each other, and live their lives in prison, or if they want to study and graduate from Harvard, I will still live my life the same way.

Its up to each individual to choose their own lives.