The live discussion on race that followed “Meeting David Wilson” was an uneven exercise. I was disappointed to hear overly simplistic assessments of the problems facing black urban communities and vague proposals for institutional remedies. But how to move forward?
Fellow blogger K Myles has written an exciting post that not only considers the historical context of problems facing the black community, but also puts forth a basic contemporary strategy for beginning to fix those problems. Some excerpts:
Our grandparents and great-grandparents understood that our families, our ethics, our faith, our …