BOB HERBERT: When Is Enough Enough?

[kevinmc]

Chances are you didn’t hear it, but on Thursday night Senator Hillary Clinton said, “If H.I.V./AIDS were the leading cause of death of white women between the ages of 25 and 34, there would be an outraged outcry in this country.”

Her comment came on the same day that a malevolent majority on the U.S. Supreme Court threw a brick through the window of voluntary school integration efforts.

There comes a time when people are supposed to get angry. The rights and interests of black people in the U.S. have been under assault for the longest time, and in the absence of an effective counterforce, that assault has only grown more brutal.

Have you looked at the public schools lately? Have you looked at the prisons? Have you looked at the legions of unemployed blacks roaming the neighborhoods of big cities across the country? These jobless African-Americans, so many of them men, are so marginal in the view of the wider society, so insignificant, so invisible, they aren’t even counted in the government’s official jobless statistics.......

http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/06/bob-herbert-when-is-enough-enough.html

[barb162]

1. He has it right as usual!

[yurbud]

2. Tom Hartmann had a sad parallel this morning from Dem debate

Tavis Smiley asked why black high school GRADUATES were unemployed at higher rates than white high school DROPOUTS but ALL the democrats answered as if he asked why blacks did worse than white high school graduates, instead of dropouts--they couldn't bring themselves to acknowledge racism as the only available response.