Al Reynolds, Tea Party Candidate, Says Black Men Prefer Selling Drugs to Education

And from what we've seen to date of the candidates they've put forward, do we really expect they have the ability to do so?

Agreed.

I believe to change this perception the black community will have to groom young black children to enter politics.

Black Americans are 10 times more likely to be imprisoned for illegal drug offenses than whites, even though both groups use and sell drugs at the same rate.

WILDWONDERFUL We have a terrible breakdown of the family in the black community.

And white politicians and white corporate America can take responsible for that!

Let's take a little walk back in History.

When blacks were finally afforded the opportunity to learn to read they weren't afforded textbooks like the white community.

When blacks were finally afforded the opportunity to attend schools built by their own hands, they weren't provided textbooks.

When the black schools were finally recognized they were given textbooks that were no longer useful to white students who were given new textbooks with the latest information.

The breakdown came when corporate America, after slavery, would not give blacks jobs paying livable wages. And still today, and though blacks are qualified, managerial jobs all most always go to non-blacks.

This is the prime source for poverty.

The prime source for poverty did not start with the black community. It started with white politicians and white corporate America denying blacks the same opportunity they gave and give whites--the same practice being use today.

There were some black communities that propsered such as Black Wall Street in Oklahoma but the whites destroyed Black Wall Street.

WILDWONDERFUL, just to let you know not all black communities are poverty strickened.

WILDWONDERFUL, know your history before giving your uneducated opinion on issues of this nature. Stop listening to the media and spend some time in the library reading History written by someone who is not white.

What ever mentality blacks have it came as a result of white politicians and white corporate America!

Freedom Writer-801740, As a former corrections officer I had an inmate tell me that he could make more in one night than i did in a year. Just because it doesnt fit with the popular opinion, doesnt make it any less true.

Last week I received a call from a politician who's running for senator and who wants my support and my vote and my money. I asked him why is it that when minorities give their support and votes and money to politicians they make promises and we don't hear from them until they run for reelection. Then he proceeded to tell me all the good he'd done on the committees he served and in what areas. I said to him from what he said all his efforts went into supporting the communities where the people with high incomes lived. I asked him why our taxes were going to provide high level education to the kids of weatlhy parents and none of our tax money was not coming back into our community to provide the same to our children? He asked, what did your county supervisor say and I told him he passed the buck like he was doing.

When the taxes of the poor is taken outside their communities to support other communities can you really expect success?

When you fail to see the whole picture then you can't make knowledgeable conclusions.

If they find being a drug pusher easier than going to school, it is a reality, that doesnt make any person a bigot/racist, it makes them a realist.

Like I said to WILDWONDERFUL, know the history behind what caused(s) crime and single parenting in these communities so you can respond with knowledge. And no, you're not a realist, you part of the problem.