The truth of our condition, he believes, demands a hard look at ourselves. Government s attempts to prevent both blacks and whites from taking responsibility for their own behavior has only made the situation worse. Institutional barriers to black participation in American life still exist, but they have come down considerably and everybody knows that. Everybody also knows that other barriers have grown up within the urban black milieu in these last decades and not only there which are profoundly debilitating. Neither the social scientists nor the politicians know what to say, or what to do, about this disintegration.
Euphemisms abound. . . .
The problem cannot be solved by government or by social programs. Building a Community of Citizens . A Question of Soul To trust government to solve the problems of black America, and to allow the bureaucrats to continue to enforce their agenda of tolerance and diversity will be, Loury concludes, to lose our souls. If we permit white liberals and black intellectuals to continue to fabricate a vocabulary of victimization and race hatred, there can be no healing between the races. Instead, other, bolder, charismatic leaders like Louis Farrakhan, who prey on the anger of the black community, and who have stolen from Christian faith and practice a tortured notion of personal spirituality, will prevail.