Sixty percent of blacks support school vouchers, surveys say, yet key Democrats insist poor blacks attend collapsing government schools while sending their own kids to safe, high-quality private classrooms. An average black male born in 1990 has a life expectancy of 64.5 years but cannot collect Social Security pension benefits before age 67. Bush's market-friendly drug proposal would leave pharmaceutical companies free to improve treatments for diabetes and hypertension, two diseases that disproportionately shorten black lives. Gore's Hillary-style plan would ensnare America's medical labs in miles of red tape. Black voters have two clear options.
Republicans offer hope, while Democrats peddle fear itself.
New York commentator Deroy Murdock is a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service.