A New Civil Rights Movement - New York Times

A New Civil Rights Movement - New York Times

Bob Herbert is a teller of truth. Are you listening Jesse, Al and others who claim to be black leaders but do little to help, let alone admit to the behavioral problems that Herbert describes?

"It is ironic, to say the least, that now, nearly a century and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation, much of the most devastating damage to black families, and especially black children, is self-inflicted.

You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to know that some of the most serious problems facing blacks in the United States - from poverty to incarceration rates to death at an early age - are linked in varying degrees to behavioral issues and the corrosion of black family life, especially the absence of fathers."