Looking in the mirror is difficult...

While the Democrats continually preach that racist Republicans are the cause of black poverty, the real problem is the welfare state. Consider these facts presented by Walter Williams:

• Only 30 to 40 percent of black males graduate from high school.
• Across the U.S., black males represent up to 70 percent of prison populations.
  
  Department of Justice statistics for 2001 show that in nearly 80 percent of violent crimes against blacks, both the victim and the perpetrator were the same race.
• In 1960, only 28 percent of black females between the ages of 15 and 44 were never married. Today, it's 56 percent.
  
• In 1940, the illegitimacy rate among blacks was 19 percent, in 1960, 22 percent, and today, it's 70 percent.
• A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of black families were nuclear families, comprised of two parents and children. In New York City in 1925, 85 percent of kin-related black households had two parents. In fact, according to Herbert Gutman in "The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom: 1750-1925," "Five in six children under the age of 6 lived with both parents."

Of course, black kids who don't go to school and wind up in jail don't often learn these facts, so they ignorantly fall for the lies of opportunist politicians who offer up the wealth of productive Americans in exchange for votes every election season.

Unfortunately for Democrats, the truth is coming out as blacks like Thomas Sowell, Star Parker, Bill Cosby, Condoleeza Rice, Clarence Thomas and Janice Rogers Brown emerge into the national spotlight.