[misterrob]

The issue is in owning the shame that comes from being where you are and owning it enough to make changes. Whites (not all) had a hand in keeping blacks down with segregation. Once that became unacceptable things started to change. What has happened here is that too many (not all mind you) blacks have relied upon white man/liberal guilt instead of taking responsibility for making their own way and we as a society have suffered. Think about how much further ahead America would be without all of the entitlement spending and instead with a strong black middle class with far less fatherless families and far less crime in the community.

[Arpege92]

"What has happened here is that too many (not all mind you) blacks have relied upon white man/liberal guilt instead of taking responsibility for making their own way and we as a society have suffered."

I wish the fine folks of FR could see my neighborhood. On my street alone, ten black families reside, nine white families reside, and one Asian family reside. It's an upper middle class neighborhood and those with the biggest houses are the black families. My point is that the "too many" is shrinking and I wouldn't have realized this had I not lived in this neighborhood.