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It is very difficult for many people, conservatives as well as liberals, to believe that there might be a segment of Americans who absolutely cannot successfully integrate into society. The members of the Black Underclass have been stoutly resisting education and civilization for many decades.

My own feeling is that it is useless to try. And yes, I was one of those people who back in the sixties thought black problems would be eliminated by integration and many of the other measures foisted on the country by well-meaning liberals.

I have come to believe the Black Underclass is hopeless. It's members cost the country about one trillion dollars annually in costs of crime and welfare. Year after year since the sixties it is the same story: staggering amounts of crime, children always at the bottom of scholastic achievement, and millions of pregnant teens with grandmothers barely thirty. It is time they are dealt with other measures than benign kindness and ignoring their faults like some people on this forum suggest.