A very interesting article from Walter Russell Mead: Urban Warming and Racial Climate Change.
The national conversation about race ground to a halt twenty years ago in a stale mix of PC platitudes, interest group lobbying, name-calling and bureaucratic turf war.
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No level of government has the money to keep expanding services and employment in the inner city or anywhere else. The underclass never got all that much from the compromise — and its frustration has grown as the Obama presidency has little or no impact on urban conditions.