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Therein lies the answer to the riddle: Most black voters are not willing to support public policies that encourage these values, or the candidates who promote them, even though most blacks would agree that they ought to be practiced.

I find it hard to believe that most blacks feel such values ought to be practiced. To think otherwise is to assume they are simply stupid. I am generally Republican and conservative in my sympathies. Yet I won't knowingly support a Republican that is more liberal that his foe. I will conceed to making mistakes in my life (Nixon v. Humphrey was the most egregious). Yet I'm not insane, and I don't think I'm more stupid that your average voter. You can't keep doing the same thing year in and year out and expect different results. You have to believe in the object of your support.

The only thing that makes any sense to me is blacks don't have a belief in a strong family. They don't believe in a good education for their kids. The same is true in any issue you care to name. I refuse to accept that the majority are simply stupid.

I'd have to disagree with you on that. The majority of blacks I've known do believe in and think those policies ought to be practiced and do practice them in their daily lives. I think the problem may lie more with people not seeing the larger scope of what their vote may actually bring about in the long run.

There is a mentality that must be pounded into their heads from a young age.

Ever since I overheard a co-worker tell another black (african-american) person at work, "You can't vote for a Republican, things will go back to the way they used to be."

I almost fell out of my desk chair

The saving grace was that the other person (a minister) laughed at her and said, " you don't really believe that, do you?"