[Jim Noble]

seems like our progress of last few decades completely lost

What progress is that?

By any objective criteria, the condition of blacks in the US has been deteriorating relentlessly since the 1950s.

The conditions that urban blacks, especially, live in would have been unimaginable in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

It is true that the lives of the "talented tenth" are in some ways better. But the rest?

Almost impossible to imagine it could be worse.

It's time to do something different.

[aspasia]

REZ BAND: Civil Rites, Lincoln's Train

[Rummyfan]

By any objective criteria, the condition of blacks in the US has been deteriorating relentlessly since the 1950s. The conditions that urban blacks, especially, live in would have been unimaginable in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

All thanks to LBJ and his Great Society.