[redeard]

Two observations:
1) Cynthia Tucker seems to think the display of the Confederate flag is wrong. I would be interested in knowing how she feels about the First Ammendment spin-off that allows for the burning of the American flag.
2) In my community blacks make up about 15% of the population, yet account for over 60% of crimes committed. Are we supposed to look the other way just because a black committed the crime?
What is the answer? EDUCATION! And laws applied equally to all. I am so sick of the whining of liberals.

[wardaddy]

The answer is first nuclear black familys...then education.

We have poured stratospherics sums into our schools and those in question have largely gone to hell in a handbasket...look at DC.

It is very difficult to teach kids who have no sense of proper behavior. I know teachers who teach in predominately black schools. This is all I ever hear.

The demise of the traditional black family sprang from the same well as permissiveness in public schools.

There is a good reason that in predominately black school districts that only naive liberal yuppies send their kids there. Wealthy black sure don't. Every professional black couple I know here in Nashville send their kids to private school past grade school....same as I will...

I'd do it earlier but I'll have two in college at the same time and I can't spend 70-80K/year on school.