The Media & Race: Getting It Wrong

"Black America is an indelible part of the American soul, a part that a majority of Americans respect and even admire. The push polls on racial attitudes aside, urban problems are American problems and they respond to American solutions, not welfare handouts. Yet entitlement politics are the political heart of most Democrat run cities in this nation. They never succeed in alleviating the problems they adopt as causes and their populist campaigns hit the same themes election after election. You would think that the problems of education in Chicago, employment in Michigan, and crime in St Louis would have made great strides forward after all the enlightened leftist advocacy and billions of tax payer dollars. Not so. Most of the money is funneled to corrupt politicians and leftist groups whose activity is disguised as social work; Obama’s participation in Bill Ayers Annenberg Challenge is a case in point. Five hundred million of taxpayer dollars down the Chicago rat hole with no appreciable improvement in education."