Question — Do poor blacks need a million more excuses?

Answer — No, they don’t need any more excuses, nor do they need one million more hip-hop artists and millionaire reverends leading them to the mall in Washington D.C. What do they need?

Star Parker of Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) has some pretty good suggestions on where to start:

Do poor blacks really need to hear “millions more” excuses why black men can’t be faithful to one woman and be responsible for the children they bear? Or why they can’t get an education because white people hate us?

Do poor blacks really need another venue for hip-hop multimillionaires to explain, in four-letter epithets, that blacks suffer because George W. Bush doesn’t care about them? This while these moguls get richer by the day peddling black booty on BET, inspiring black kids to live the life that guarantees to keep them poor?

Despite Farrakhan’s supposed objective to “empower” poor folks, he should understand, as more and more blacks are beginning to understand, that he, and other long-standing traditional black leaders, really promote quite the opposite.

Poor blacks do not need to be “mobilized” to turn even more responsibility for their lives over to others. They need to go to school and take care of their families. The place where this needs to take place is within a couple-mile radius of where they live. It certainly won’t take place on the National Mall in Washington.

She has a lot more to add. Go read the entire article.

These aren’t the kinds of answers that the current crop of failed black leaders will ever own up to. But these are exactly the answers that poor blacks need to hear and aspire to.