If truth be told,Sharpton,Waters,Jesse and the whole gang of demagogues could vanish from the face of the earth and blacks in a desolated place like New Orleans would catch hell.
The school system is a pathetic joke.Family structure is on VERY shaky ground.The whole "party and have a good time"ethos of the city is particularly destructive for blacks.Everyone wants to get their thrill on and to hell with intellectual and spiritual uplift.
And,flame me if you will,but many whites down there just plain DON'T LIKE blacks.I could tell you many stories of "nigger hating"among the whites I encountered down there from 1970-1977.Blacks have a GOOD reason,stemming from their own experience not to trust many whites.They don't need the good Rev'rd Jesse to tell them that.
There isn't room here to get into what affect the family dynamic has had on tearing apart black families, and I think they need more Bill Cosby's and fewer Jackson's who will tell them the truth instead of what they like to hear
What I dislike is bigotry of any kind... or people who feel sorry for themselves instead of trying to get an education to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Sometimes you need to throw a cold glass of water on the situation and tell people to wake up and do something to help themselves... and that is my complaint. I don't think some of the whites would look at them in disgust and call them names if they saw people really trying to help themselves instead of giving up.
So flame away at me as well, but we all have it tough at times in our lives, it's what we make of it that builds character and self-respect. Looting doesn't build self-respect (IMHO)