The Conservative Sage

The end of the civil rights movement brought along with it great promise for the futures of African Americans. After forty years of government programs, and voter registration drives the results are depressing. The high school dropout rate among blacks is 50% in some cities. 25% of black men are either incarcerated or on parole. Inner cities of Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago,New Orleans and others lead the nation in murder, crime and or urban decay. Quite often issues of urban decay and crime are explained away through an economic prism. The issue is far more basic as I will show. The decades after the civil rights movement produced great achievements for blacks in all aspects of society. Prior to 1965, fewer than five blacks held elected office in the south. By the 2000 the number had grown to over 8,000 nationwide. There was an 84% increase in the number of black elected officials between 1980 and 2000. The irony is that these gains in the political arena has coincided with a ste

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 march on Washington where The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic 'I have a dream speech". Hundreds of thousands of primarily blacks gathered in Washington D.C. to demand jobs and freedom. This weekend, again thousands will gather to commemorate the march, this time the theme is ' jobs and justice". Although the 1963 march is to be respected and revered for its impact on civil rights, the gatherings over the past several decades continue to cheapen the legacy of the civil rights movement. Since 1963, the civil rights impostors have successfully convinced subsequent generations that very little has changed in America. Media anointed black 'leaders' have created a "grievance industrial complex" in order to draw phony parallels to the Jim Crow era. After five decades of race baiting, racial hoaxes (SEE Tawana Brawley and Duke Lacross) and six years of Barack Obama attack dogs, Amer

In light of the recent bankruptcy of the city of Detroit one of the city's native son's is aiming to make a difference. The diminutive billionaire Chairman of Quicken loans and majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers has invested $1 billion dollars of his own money to acquire over three million square feet of real estate in Downtown Detroit. The problems that have plagued the beleaguered city over the past four decades have been well documented. Rampant corruption, abandoned buildings, crime, drugs, and big labor have caused a loss of over half the city's population. Mr. Gilbert's ambitious plans include turning Downtown into a high tech hub,  His real estate company,  Bedrock Real Estate Services , is renovating properties, building apartments and wooing corporate tenants. A seven-mile light rail system is in the planning stages, underwritten by a number of businesses and business leaders, including Mr. Gilbert.  Although his fortune is estimated at $3.5 billion b

Over the past several years one thing has been made very clear by the left: do not cross us. The latest victim of the left's mob attacks CNN Liberal host Don Lemon who dared to actually agree with comments made by the much despised FOX commentator Bill Ore'illy. Ore'illy called out members of the civil rights establishment for their silence on the myriad of problems in the black community such a crime and out of wedlock births. On Lemon's CNN show he not only agreed with Ore'illy but stated that 'he didn't go far enough. Lemon then proceeded  to outline several points which he feels would improve the black community such as education, and doing away with sagging pants. Some of his seemingly mundane suggestions have set of a firestorm of criticism which the left often does when one of their own strays from the left wing orthodoxy. Its appears that on the left one can only speak of blacks as victims of racial and economic oppression. Raising issues of pers