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The percentage of black men graduating from college has nearly quadrupled since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and yet more black men earn their high school equivalency diplomas in prison each year than graduate from college. Black families where men are in the home earn median incomes that approach those of white families. Yet more than half of the nation's 5.6 million black boys live in fatherless households, 40 percent of which are impoverished. The ranks of professional black men have exploded over four decades — there were 78,000 black male engineers in 2004, a 33 percent increase in 10 years. And yet 840,000 black men are incarcerated, and the chances of a black boy serving time has nearly tripled in three decades, Justice Department projections show.

What this says to me that it's the choices that black men make that will determine their own future as it is quite obvious that they are as capable as anyone else on this planet.

Where the nation was once largely segregated along a black-white divide, the country has become more racially and ethnically mixed, creating opportunities — and new sensibilities. Erin Smith, 23, who recently graduated with a business degree from Howard University, once considered himself a militant. "You kind of get groomed, in a way, in that totally pro-black environment at Howard." But as he began to pursue his business dreams — a fledgling multimedia company he created his freshman year and a real estate venture with his father — Smith started to expand his thinking.

"I saw myself as potentially being kind of racist," he says "of closing myself off to people. I'm still pro-black, but we don't need to totally focus on race. We're all part of the human race. I kind of grew a little bit. I look at life as a puzzle — day by day, you get a new piece. Some young men think success is 20-inch rims, flat-screen TV. They only think of success as what they see — and that's what they see."

Interesting perspective here. A young man goes to a black college and comes out "groomed" as he says to be a racist. Going out into the real world he finds that there is more than the crap he is fed in school. Perhaps the race card being bandied about by black leaders and educators is keeping them away from prosperity and mainstream acceptance?

What this says to me that it's the choices that black men make that will determine their own future as it is quite obvious that they are as capable as anyone else on this planet.

Perhaps that's what you actually hear, but what the liberal left would like you to hear is that the entire country has adopted the oppressive, segregationist polices of the old South and that the White Power Structure is alive and well.

Now if we could just figure out a way to oppress the Asians and Hispanics............