Since the 1960′s America has not produced one black leader, whether political, religious, or civic, of any distinction. When I was growing up here in DC in the mid-1970′s, I was taught about the bight future ahead of us between the races. In 2009, DC is every bit as divided as before. And being a minority in a black city, I have neither witnessed one local or national black leader that has ever extended their hand to whites to join them in a better future. Instead I have heard countless times from Howard Univ. students and some local leaders engage in hate-mongering such as blaming whites for astronomical rates of AIDS of local blacks, etc. In addition, the ghetto, two blocks from where I live, is as dysfunctional as it was 40 years ago. In all this time, I have not ever heard of any black organization outraged by the actions of their leadership. Instead, they re-elected them. I am now to the point where I no longer believe in the Dream – nobody wants it.
