QUESTION OF THE DAY. Juan Williams in the Washington Post.

The real question is how one does battle with the culture of failure that is poisoning young people -- and do so without incurring the wrath of critics who say we are closing our eyes to existing racial injustice and are "blaming the victim."

(Via Sean Hackbarth. Read and understand.)

That people who have lived through the struggles for civil rights legislation are taking up the call against the "authenticity" of street culture and noting many of the youngsters' failure to take advantage of the rights secured in Brown and the Voting Rights Act will do more to achieve the goals of those policies than anything my posts can add or detract.