>[WS:] Obviously, I do not know Ralph Reed personally,
snork!
>The best we can hope for is people like Obama - who have enough
>skill and will to negotiate a slighly better deal for people who
>have been getting the short end of the stick since the Reagan "revolution."
And who are those people? Obama is not going to change anything in Nickerson Gardens or Jordan Downs. And with things like this (from Doug's earlier post) he's even helping to write them off. :
>Adolph Reed passed this along this morning: Obama wrote in The
>Audacity of Hope (pp. 255-256): "We know that many in the inner city
>are trapped by their own self-destructive behaviors . . . perhaps
>the single biggest thing we could do to reduce [inner-city] poverty
>is to encourage teenage girls to finish high school and avoid having
>children out of wedlock."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts,_Los_Angeles,_California