 righthand says: Snce 1968, much of black America has also been beset by disaster. A vast underclass inhabits America's ghettos, mired in joblessness, drugs and gang violence. In the inner cities half of all black males do not finish high school. 6 in 10 of those will end up in jail by the time they reach their mid-thirties. These people grow up in an environment often more segregated, more hopeless and more dangerous than the Jim Crow era of the Deep South. It is perhaps one of the greatest paradoxes facing modern American black leaders such as Charles Steele, now president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King founded and used as his tool to bring civil rights to America. ...Guardian Charles Steele said. 'America is still racist to a large degree. More so perhaps. It's subliminal and embedded in the system.'That is pretty much the view of Thelma Townsend, 68, who should be retired but still works as a nurse in the suburb of Orange Mound. The suburb is a landmark in Memphis, built for black Americans more than 100 years ago on the 5,000-acre site of a slave plantation. Once it rivalled New York's Harlem as a centre of black culture and economic power. But now it has been hit hard by drugs and gangs and unemployment. Many houses are dilapidated and abandoned. Townsend snorts in disgust at the past 40 years in black America. [i]'I... Their access to healthcare is that of the 3rd world. It's a challenging issue that will take all the brainpower of the government-help oriented left and the personal responsibility oriented right. Either alone fails. It's part of why I think Obama's abilities are important for our future. Lasting solutions will only come when both sides win. |
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