[luvbach1]

Any of the black patriots named would be hooted off any stage with cries of “Uncle Tom” and “Sellout!” if they were to publicly deplore flash-mob criminality before a black audience.

[re_nortex]

Any of the black patriots named would be hooted off any stage with cries of “Uncle Tom” and “Sellout!” if they were to publicly deplore flash-mob criminality before a black audience.

It's going to take someone far smarter than this FReeper to come up with a remedy.

What I do know (as I approach 7 decades on the planet) is that in the early 1960's, George C. Wallace was embraced by the genuinely good and authentically Christian people of Alabama when he stated: "...segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever".

Then, there was what I believe a real change both in the hearts and minds of the white people of the South and in George Wallace himself. It was no longer acceptable to speak of segregation as he did in 1963.

The South and America as a whole (and certainly Free Republic) repudiates racism -- a racism that was once actually considered acceptable and, in some cases, the morally right thing. Surely there must be a similar change of such magnitude possible in black America? At least, I hope so.