Jesse Jackson thinks so.
Jackson Statement: For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize. My support for Senator Obama_s campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal. I cherish this redemptive and historical moment.
_My appeal was for the moral content of his message to not only deal with the personal and moral responsibility of black males, but to deal with the collective moral responsibility of government and the public policy which would be a corrective action for the lack of good choices that often …

Although The Wire, my favorite television show of all time, ended months ago a couple of scenes haunt me still. And I’d say that one scene fuels my sense of urgency about how important it is to have productive discussions about race across the widest possible array of people. It’s the scene where neglected, homeless and gentle natured Dookie asks his would be mentor, “How do you get from here to the outside world?” For Dookie, here is the blighted Baltimore neighborhood he is trapped in. Although it sits just …