Roger, thank you for your thoughtfulness in discussing a topic that is rife with social and political land-mines. Land mines that I am happy to step on only because I don’t accept a status quo on how things are. Especially when thedata and facts are present. People can deny them all they want, but I can’t.

I realize bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people, but I see a new strain of sociopathy that seeks to celebrate bad things happening to bad people. You can’t have decades of celebrating degeneracy in the black community and not come out smelling like roses. From drug culture to thug culture to the constant refrain of perpetual violence from every corner of inner city life with no hope, no family’s, no structure, just chaos and insecurity.

This kind of living can’t be maintained without spilling over into other fabrics of this country and we are seeing it now. But beneath it all is the idea that people must be responsible for themselves and all I see is entitlement, apathy, bitterness, and misplaced grievance for experiences never had. But thank you roger for a mature treatise on the subject. Cheers.