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Below are the actions called for:
“1. The War on Drugs must be eliminated. It creates a black market economy that tempts underserved black men from finishing school or seeking legal employment and imprisons them for long periods, removing them from their children and all but assuring them of lowly existences afterward.”

Translation: Black men cannot resist selling drugs to make easy money, or buying drugs to get high. So we must let them take and sell drugs so they wont be criminals.

“2. We have known for decades how to teach poor black children to read: phonics-based approaches called Direct Instruction, solidly proven to work in the ’60s by Siegfried Engelmann’s Project Follow Through study. School districts claiming that poor black children be taught to read via the whole-word method, or a combination of this and phonics, should be considered perpetrators of a kind of child abuse. Children with shaky reading skills are incapable of engaging any other school subject meaningfully, with predictable life results.”

Translation: After arguing for generations that blacks and whites are the same, and calling anyone who said differently racists, we now admit that Black people are wired differently than whites so they do not learn the same way. This is just another of the endless rationales used to explain the poor performance of blacks in school.

“3. Long-Acting Reproductive Contraceptives should be given free to poor black women (and other poor ones too). It is well known that people who finish high school, hold a job, and do not have children until they are 21 and have a steady partner are almost never poor. We must make it so that more poor black women have the opportunity to follow that path. The data is in: Studies in St. Louis and Colorado have shown that these devices sharply reduce unplanned pregnancies. Also, to reject this approach as “sterilizing” these women flies in the face of the fact that the women themselves rate these devices quite favorably.”

Translation: Black women need more free stuff because they cant be expected to keep their legs closed when informed that a simple behavior change will solve a huge problem.

“4. We must revise the notion that attending a four-year college is the mark of being a legitimate American, and return to truly valuing working-class jobs. Attending four years of college is a tough, expensive, and even unappealing proposition for many poor people (as well as middle-class and rich ones). Yet poor people can, with up to two years’ training at a vocational institution, make solid livings as electricians, plumbers, hospital technicians, cable television installers, and many other jobs. Across America, we must instill a sense that vocational school—not “college” in the traditional sense—is a valued option for people who want to get beyond what they grew up in.”

Translation: Blacks cannot be expected to meet society’s standards for academic success so they must be revised.

The recipe for black success in the US is remarkably simple. 1. work hard in school and at work. 2. Stay out of trouble (no drugs, violence or arrests). Companies will beat a path to your door.