This LA Times article with video shows Prichard as a small rural community, largely segregated, oppressed by violence and ignored by the surrounding community. "Its young people have come to know their enclave as 'Death Valley.'"
Its poverty is shocking.. even for LA inner-city toughs. But there's stuff that the inner-city homeboys recognize: "drug dealers, shootings, dead-end choices and the desperate situation of youth facing no way out."
Many of the reader comments blame Palin and the Tea Party, of course.
We as a country have poured untold trillions upon trillions into black America. Either through education dollars, healtcare, subsidized housing, policing, prisons, drug rehabilitation, you name it. And the problems only got worse.
Now we are repeating the exact same thing with our Latin American population, whether legal or illegal, just as the money is surely running out.
This topic needs to be brought up as issue priority number one, every day, all day. Because if the target population is not made to understand what truly is going on, it will get bloody, when those checks run out, guaranteed.
I don't have the answers and it's not exactly a sexy topic. But is Rush banging the drum on this? Is Hannity? I haven't heard it or when I do it's so subtle that it's pointless.
It needs to be a calm, blunt, honest and rational assessment and it's going to have to touch on nasty things like inherent abilities and expectations. And we have 5 years tops.
I'm not hopeful.