eric I have to admit that I feel kind of slighted by you completely ignoring any points I, or for that matter anyone else makes.


You pretty much have a tag line and its "blacks need to be responsible and have better leadership." And you have repeated it time and again. Im not saying that this is not true, but what I am, and many others are saying is that the root of the problem is not in the black community but it really goes all the way back to slavery. Denying that is like playing in a tournament where all the left handed people start with 500 chips and all the right handed people start with 10,000 chips; towards the end of the tournament the righties say "man, I folded aces to a lefty preflop just to help him out but the all still complain, and I mean look at that lefty over there with a big stack, he did just fine!" [sorry but poker analogies come easy..]