Katie Toth

…lack middle class under the 1st Clinton administration, and significant drop in black unemployment (despite what Michelle Alexander says, this wasn’t due to mass incarceration. I could go on, but that’s a topic for another day.). Under Clinton, black people prospered economically, and those are economic times that we’d like to …

Well first let me say that a complex and enlightened society (such as ours, allegedly) allows people (especially professors) to bring up social problems without having to pose readymade solutions for a perfect alternative that fit together perfectly like machine-cut IKEA furniture. To demand that everyone who presents a highly complex multi-layered problem automatically have an easy, tweetable solution is unfair and absurd. Your demand for a solution actually has more to do with your desire to avoid the problem than your…