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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Herman Cain
	Date:	5/2/2011 1:42:29 PM

Hound, you and I may completely agree that Jim Crow laws were awful but it is still not an excuse for the status of the overall black community today. There are a number of very well researched articles and books about this. One of my favorites is Economic Facts and Fallacies by Dr. Thomas Sowell. I highly recommend it.

If you look at the black community and where they made the greatest progress from a history of slavery and discrimination it was not after the civil rights movement. In fact, if you examine the status of the black family you could reasonably argue that things are much worse for them today than before the civil rights movement and Johnson's failed war on poverty and great society nonsense, well meaning though it was intended.

Yes they had to use certain restaurants and separate bathrooms and yes in many cases there schools were sub par. But as we have seen the typical liberal prescription for these inequities (i.e., forced busing, etc.) did not help them and in fact in many cases made things worse. But we do agree that reparations are totally ridiculous in that we are rewarding people never directly impacted by slavery and asking people who never engaged in this practice to pay. As Dr. Sowell points out so well in his book all the economic arguments for reparation are based on wishful thinking and not sound economics.

What is even worse today in my view is the resegregation of blacks and whites, particularly at the universities. It seems like the liberal intelligentsia has embraced the separate but equal approach versus my belief in a color blind society. It is what we have in our kids school and it can work but it takes discipline and commitment to not kowtowing to political correctness.