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the insinuation that education is anti-black.

It has not the quality of an insinuation. It is an openly proclaimed principle. The leaders decry the unequal representation of blacks in the more highly educated professions while at the bottom, in the schools education is proclaimed "white" and shunned. Those who study are intimidated, sometimes beaten for their presumption and are certainly socially ostracized. So Education is a White Man's tool of oppression and Orientals and Hindus and Nigerians and Lebanese use that tool to become part of the "oppressor" class very successfully. It is a wonder that so many urban blacks are so intent on living their lives as oppressees, abjuring utterly advancement other than that advancement that comes from a career in petty and not so petty crime, most of which constitutes oppression of other blacks. It is a lost cause for most of the aspirants because there is not much room at the top and less in the rising ranks of the crime industry and it comes with a high mortality rate.

"Rosa Parks is a hero because she got tired of white people feeling a sense of entitlement to a seat on a bus wherever they wanted it. They didn't have to respect us. It didn't matter if we were there first and were just as tired." I asked a young girl (9, white) in Montgomery about what she knew of Rosa Parks (there's a billboard on the interstate driving south into Montgomery which features Rosa's courageous acts). Without hesitation -because her teacher had dealt with the issue recently- she replied that Rosa Parks was an older black woman who was not respected on a bus when she wanted to just sit and ride home from work.

Actually, that about sums it up, the essence of the truth that is. This journalist, Jason Whitlock, seems to have captured the essence of the 'new KKK' pretty succinctly. I wonder how long it will take to deal with the reality he enumerates? Too long, you can bet on that, just like it took too damn long to end the obscenity of forced social segregation once the heinous obscenity of slavery was ended. Come to think of it, Jason is still having to write about the same thing, forced social segregation. Sheesh ...