The State Against Blacks – The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do. . . . And that is to destroy the black family.’ – Source: The Wall Street Journal

“Sometimes I sarcastically, perhaps cynically, say that I’m glad that I received virtually all of my education before it became fashionable for white people to like black people," writes Walter Williams in his new autobiography, "Up from the Projects." "By that I mean that I encountered back then a more honest assessment of my strengths and weaknesses. Professors didn’t hesitate to criticize me—sometimes to the point of saying, ‘That’s nonsense.’" (Read more)

Politics and Blacks – Interesting

This is quite interesting and is some good talking points. I would love to have a dialogue about this because I found this since writing my piece earlier about Edgecombe County Politics/People. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

President Barack Obama won an unprecedented 96 percent of the black vote. That’s not much of a news story since blacks typically give their votes to the Democratic candidate. Blacks are probably the most politically loyal people in the nation and it is almost taken as gospel, at least among civil rights organizations and black and white liberals, that the only way black people can make socioeconomic progress is through the politics of race and special government programs. However, such a vision can be subjected to empirical evidence. (TownHall.com)