The Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations
Juan Williams has the poverty pimps in the crosshairs

Wow... you mean responsibility starts with the individual, and not the government?! What a concept!

Here are a few snips of the article by Gregory Kane of the Baltimore Sun;

Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America - and What We Can Do About It is Juan Williams' diatribe against black "leaders" of the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton model, which is to say the self-serving, race-hustling type. Williams also takes to task reparations advocates, black criminals and rappers who are responsible for the most viciously stereotypical images of black people to have ever come down the pike.

Kane went on to interview Williams -

Is there a link between the number of poor black people in New Orleans and the number of blacks who don't finish high school in the city?

"Oh, yes," Williams responded. "And there's a connection between people who don't finish high school and the prison rate. I don't remember what the exact figures are."

Williams seemed genuinely surprised - and not in a good way - when I told him about how Baltimore's leaders are crowing about our town's stellar 60 percent graduation rate, which would put us some 7 percentage points below New Orleans, one of the poorest cities in the poorest region of the country.

"Yes, they are," I told Williams. "They're proud of it. They're strutting around like peacocks with their chests poked out from here to Havre de Grace."

Once we got done discussing what passes for leadership in Baltimore...

I usually don't agree with Juan Williams, but in this case, he hit the nail right on the head.