Cross-Fire Cease-Fire: A Black Truce

This is not another speech advising Black men to pull up their pants, to stop getting tattoos, to be investors rather than consumers, and to finish school. Far from it. However strong my opinions on those matters may be, they are collateral issues to the point of this piece and we’ve heard it all before. We have much bigger fish to fry. And if we review the record objectively, it is increasingly difficult to see that any of…