In this column, "Banish The Bling" liberal columnist Juan Williams asks the hard questions that need to be asked regarding the culture of failure that is afflicting much of the black community today. As my children attend an inner-city magnet school located across the street form a large housing project, we see this culture on a regular basis. As I have discussed before, the gym at the school is packed for a basketball game yet the Science Fair has no one attending from the "apartments" across the street. In contrast, families from the suburbs are driving up to 25 miles to attend. Williams is taking quite a risk by asking these questions, but they need to be asked. Example:
Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty? Where are the marches demanding good schools for those children -- and the strong cultural reinforcement for high academic achievement (instead of the charge that minority students who get good grades are "acting white")? Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed "gangstas," minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?
Be sure to give Williams' column a read.
H/T: Boortz.
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