Political Power Hasn't Brought Black Progress

by Walter E. Williams - August 10, 2009 - Investor's Business Daily

Blacks hold high offices and dominate the political arena in Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., New Orleans and other cities. Yet these are the very cities with the nation's most rotten schools, highest crime rates, high illegitimacy rates, weak family structure and other forms of social pathology.

So why is it that blacks cannot see the relationship? Or should I say the lack of it?