History AND facts are NOT on your side Bill
Bill, I'd like to give you the benefit of doubt but why does enunciating the difficulties faced by blacks in America today mean the writer is a racist? Why do you have such difficulty in accepting the historical record?
Pretty hard to SOLVE a problem without a clear understand of the what and the why and the extent of the problem. Can't get to that without looking at and speaking about the facts.
America can continue to put the extraordinarily expensive and divisive band-aid on or you can try to actually understand and solve the problem.
And for the record, the problem is not blacks, it is the poor underbelly of America, with no fathers, little education and fewer opportunities. In my country it's Native Americans, in yours it's blacks. In England and Scotland, it's a whole bunch of white guys. (these are generalizations but I think they are apt)
