An Introduction To Ted Hayes
Posted on April 28th, 2005 in General, Politics, Culture by ComptonFellah ||
Political analyst on KCAL-9 TV Los Angeles, Ms. Stewart, has an article in the ($$) Wall Street Journal describing Ted Hayes. A must read for those that don’t know who Ted Hayes is.
Rasta Republican
By JILL STEWART
April 28, 2005 12:07 a.m.; Page A19
LOS ANGELES — Condoleezza Rice and Ward Connerly once epitomized black Republicans in California. But their ilk now also includes Ted Hayes, a social activist and inner-city coach whose billowing robes and dreadlocks don’t exactly conjure up an image of the GOP.
More blacks than ever support vouchers and faith-based initiatives, and side with President Bush on gay marriage. Mr. Hayes recently made the transition himself, ending a long journey for this former leftist who founded Dome Village, an outcropping of pod-like homeless shelters along the freeway in downtown Los Angeles.
There are other prominent black Republicans in California, of course, such as syndicated radio host Larry Elder and community relations expert Joe Hicks. But even among these unusual thinkers, Mr. Hayes stands out. He’s an intense critic of L.A.’s powerful “black old guard” — Democratic politicians, charity bosses and inner-city preachers who, for a generation, have responded to poverty and illiteracy by demanding government programs and blaming white racism.
Not surprisingly, plenty of people wish pesky black Republicans like Mr. Hayes would just slink away. He has skewered L.A.’s entrenched black leaders as “Negro officials,” and he has the street cred to get away with it. As L.A. endured another crisis between black leaders and cops recently, he refused to denounce police for shooting dead a 13-year-old, Devin Brown, after a car chase. Instead, Mr. Hayes’s press release faulted black church leaders who, despite their great power, rarely point to the lack of parental responsibility.
A totemic figure in L.A., Mr. Hayes has long emphasized problem-solving and individual responsibility. If you want to stop kids from shooting people, Mr. Hayes has told appalled black preachers and activists, stop blaming cops and “white folks” for urban tragedy and start blaming the lackadaisical inner-city family culture you support.
Mr. Hayes spent last fall tooling around the fortified neighborhoods of South Los Angeles, knocking on security screens and urging stunned residents to vote Bush. He explained that the Democratic Party was the Klan’s party in the 20th century, and the party of the slave trade before that. A lot of people he met didn’t know their pre-1960s history. He’s ever unflappable. In early December, he appeared on Fox News to vociferously defend the right of Condi Rice to be Republican. His segment was introduced by a bemused Brit Hume, who hardly knew what to make of the Rasta Republican.
To illustrate how easily civility can rub off on urban kids if adults take a stand, Mr. Hayes in the 1990s founded a cricket team in rundown Compton , comprised of Latino teenagers and homeless men. The team, called “Homies and Popz,” toured Ireland and England, playing at Windsor Castle, where Mr. Hayes chatted with the Earl of Wessex. Mr. Hayes’s son, Theo, a co-coach, told an interviewer that none of the cricket-playing kids has become a gang casualty. The Los Angeles Opera commissioned a 40-minute opera on the team by Michael Abels, and the Homies won two victory cups in the L.A. Social Cricket Alliance, a league dominated by Brits, Indians and other googly-bowling expats.
Mr. Hayes can ignite controversy, as when he persuaded L.A. officials to sign a declaration two years ago calling on Muslims to denounce global terrorism more vehemently. City leaders rewrote the declaration, making Mr. Hayes’s original wording tougher. When Muslim leaders expressed outrage, city officials quickly apologized. Mr. Hayes still smarts over public criticism of him by Muslim leaders arising from the incident, which he says could be cited by radical Islamists as reason to harm him physically.
Even that sort of dread doesn’t seem as tough as being a black Republican some days. He was outraged when a liberal white radio personality called Condi Rice an “Aunt Jemima” for embracing Republicanism, and even angrier when top black Democrats stood silent. He founded ABE — American Black Elephants — a group that so far has 10 members. At a recent L.A. County Republican Party meeting, Mr. Hayes erupted into “God Bless America” after watching slides from a soldier who’d just returned from Iraq. Less emotive Republicans, though startled, joined right in.
Mr. Hayes’s Republican bent has strained relations within his family. His daughter, Joanna, who won gold in the Athens Olympics in the 100-meter hurdles, explained on PBS last year that after much political confusion, she’s learned to be deeply proud of her dad.
Yet in spite of the gnashing of teeth he provokes, Mr. Hayes earns grudging respect. In the ’90s, with nonprofits citing a lack of “affordable housing” as a key cause of homelessness, Mr. Hayes — living among the domes — suggested that many black homeless men were modern-day tramps who viewed the middle class with disdain. But he was constructive, not merely critical, and proposed a National Homeless Plan to enlist corporations to help resistant homeless men support themselves in special communities — winning private contracts like those that now go to incarcerated prisoners.
A principled man (like Mr. Connerly, the University of California regent who persuaded voters to end affirmative action in college admissions), Mr. Hayes has the courage of his convictions. Recently, he met with L.A. City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa to sound out his thoughts on the Hayes-Muslim dustup. Mr. Villaraigosa, for his part, is seeking to become the first Latino mayor of L.A. since Abraham Lincoln’s time, and has been peeling black votes away from incumbent James Hahn. He needs not to alienate the dreadlocked and outspoken Republican.
Mr. Hayes’s victories are small — enjoying face time with a busy politician, teaching street kids the finer points of cricket, and helping homeless men pull themselves together. Each is a part of the Hayes project. And he’s got patience, especially when it comes to broadening the Republican tent. Or, as Ted Hayes might call it, the Republican dome.
Ms. Stewart, a Los Angeles-based writer and syndicated columnist, is a political analyst on KCAL-9 TV Los Angeles.
April 30th, 2005 at 6:12 pm
Cricket? Cricket?!?! He’s got lots of guts . . . perhaps someday I’ll get to meet him.
April 30th, 2005 at 10:29 pm
Thank you for letting us know about this courageous man. Hopefully he and those like him will encourage others to be strong and think for themselves.
May 9th, 2005 at 10:16 am
This Ted Hayes guy is a visionary, and a REBEL, willing, AND ABLE, to free my fellow African Americans off of the black Democratic plantation.
May 12th, 2005 at 10:21 am
Review for yourself Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” and consider where the “Dixiecrat” wing of the Democratic Party defected to during and after the civil rights movement. There’s nothing wrong with being a political realist, as long as your political protractor is taking all the angles into consideration. You will have friends and enemies no matter where you go; that is the only truism that is ultimately reliable.
June 11th, 2005 at 8:45 pm
Rasta Republican is an oxymoron
Rasta cannot be republican, that is like
a klansman liberal.
July 5th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
While Jill Stewart may be applauding Ted for having the gall and gumption to challenge black leaders and traditional thinkers to think outside the box, I would be a bit reticent to applaud him for putting his money where his mouth is.
Let’s be clear, Ted is a man who abandoned his wife and child to live on the streets with the homeless. While some may find that laudable, as a father, I find his selfish act to be irresponsible and cowardly. He abandoned his “mainstream” life and left behind a family. The LA Times article has since been archived and not available online but Winds of Change, precisely captures the quote I was searching.
The fact that he is going through a political transformation from a Lefty Democrat to a “Rasta” Republican only demonstrates that he is running from himself or searching for himself. Living on the streets did not help transform him into the homeless savior. If he’s banking on living as a black Republican to accomplish this, then he’s way past delusional.
July 7th, 2005 at 9:57 am
Bruh, I am a 35 year old Black male who has no political party affiliation. I tend to vote issues, interests and people instead of for a particular party. While I find much to respect and admire about “elements” of both party platforms (including some of what the “Rasta Republican” has to say), I can see nothing in the two parties to compel me (a Black man) to become a card-carrying member of either. Neither speaks directly to the needs and aspirations of Black people, other non-whites or poor whites in America. Neither party is calling for a full accounting as to why such dramatic inequities still exist (by race) in this so-called “land of opportunity”. In fact, I am amazed that Black Republicans and poor whites in the “heartland” continue to vote against their own interests and in favor of becoming cannon fodder in wealthy imperialists’ overseas adventures… While it is true that we cannot blame ALL of our (Black peoples’) collective troubles on whites or racism (white supremacy) and I certainly believe in individual responsibility, I sincerely believe that anyone who denies racism (coupled with economics) is not the primary underlying problem in America (refer to W.E.B. DuBois) is ignorant of the real history of this country (not this country’s mythology) and is not thinking clearly. Neither Republicanism nor Democracy (party) have caused the inequities in America and therefore should not be the centerpiece of the discussion - white supremacy (and the economic controls built to maintain and advance it) has. White supremacy advances regardless of which party is in control. The works of Tim Wise and others make this abundantly clear. The sad part is that along with institutional controls, we (Black people) have assumed the behaviors that will ensure these inequities continue to exist for generations to come. Neither party cares to address these issues in a progressive manner and neither party has an interest in leveling the playing field. In regards to race, both parties get hung up on promoting historical “firsts” (first Black this, first Hispanic that) with respect to their efforts in communities of color, which keeps the focus off of the real issues at hand. Let’s be real about this. One cannot solve a problem by denying its existence or by attacking the symptoms only. To ally oneself with the purveyors of illegal war, unfettered capitalism and neo-imperialism is just a foolhardy as to attach oneself to the “poverty pimps”, civil-libertarians and same-sex marriage legalizers of the new millennium. Does anyone else see anything wrong with a party that insists upon massive corporate welfare while rolling back the safety net (and safety) for real people? Are American corporations the beacons of social and economic responsibility? Have they ever been? I think not. How does any Black person wholly ignore the “dark side” of the Republican Party including all of the exposed lies about Iraq, the illegal regime changes, the corporate scandals and simply check “yes”? On the other hand, the Democrats tend to believe that government is too much of a catch all and most definitely take the Black community for granted. I would agree with you in saying that Black people need to get off of the Democratic plantation…..but not to move on over to a new (better?) plantation in Republican-ville. At the end of the day, it is about the control of money and resources. Why must Black people continue to be influenced to select one of two bad choices? While I applaud your “independent” streak, I must argue that a true independent would choose neither party and would work to create an alternative consciousness. Contrary to popular belief, the two-party system of government is not a clause in our Constitution. Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Thomas Sowell, Ward Connerly are just as much a part of the problem as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Coretta Scott King et al. All have been co-opted by “power”, but at least the latter group occasionally speaks truth to it… I have thoroughly examined both political options presented to us and have found them both lacking… A truly free man needs no party affiliation…
July 8th, 2005 at 2:11 pm
I had the opportunity to work with Ted during the 04 election cycle - he is a very intelligent man with more gumption that most people could ever wish for. I applaud him for taking action and expressing himself in a city and state where “Republican” is a curse word. Don’t stop, Ted.
July 12th, 2005 at 12:28 am
It makes more sense that more of us Rastafarians are not liberal but conservative because we believe in the ways of the elders and are generally not in favor of a host of liberal causes such as gay marriage and abortion, which are the most liberal causes today. Also I would say that our Binghi bredren are more liberal than the BoBo’s are but both are very conservative.(I would suggest taking a political profile test) Self reliance and responsability for our own people, education, chastity of our women, anti homosexuality, anti abortion, and not using government assistance are all conservative causes as well as Rastafarian. The old race liberals time has come and gone now the fight lies in educating our youths and giving them back the pride that our race has lost. Abandon food stamps, Government education in public schools, living in tenament yards (projects)and drug abuse(the true definition of drugs does not include ganJAH). This is what rasta is. We have all been tricked into believing otherwise.
July 26th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
Mike V said:
“Rasta Republican is an oxymoron Rasta cannot be republican, that is like a klansman liberal.”
So, what do you call Sen. Robert Byrd?
July 31st, 2005 at 5:54 pm
I think that before the Republican Party has any success making inroads into the Black community, it needs to check it’s “salespeople”. It seems that many, if not most, may have attended a one day seminar that taught them all the same tired slogans and code words. “Democratic Plantation” had bite and wit about 15 years ago. Today it just sounds crass. And by now, we all know that none of you EVER accepted one iota of Affirmative Action. You all made it all by yourself. Just hiked up the old bootstraps. Before one of you go into a practiced diatribe concerning my …can I say it?…LIBERALISM, I’ll inform you that I’m a 48 year-old homeowner, married, 2 grown and successful sons, veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and I’ve worked in Electrical Engineering for the past 17 years. I don’t know for certain whether or how much AA may have assisted me at some point in my life. Hell, I was always smarter, anyway. I scored 95s on 3 of the areas 4 on the AQE(airman’s qualification exams). 95 is top score. Alas, I slipped to an 85 in the fourth. My point is not to toot my own horn, though it may seem that way. My point is to simply state that if I got a leg up somewhere along the way by virtue of a country coming to grips with it’s past, then so be it. I was never given anything that I wasn’t qualified to do. So when I hear the Armstrong Williams, with his hand in the President’s pocket, ranting against something that benefitted him, it makes me ill. And Star Parker is another shameless one(not the word my wife would have used! lol) This women was the embodiment of Ronald Reagan’s Welfare Queen. Don’t take my word, read her bio. Now she has pulled herself up with no help from anybody….except maybe the Conservative think tanks and foundations that pay her big bucks to spit venom at others who may find themselves in the condition she once experienced. Look , I’m no big fan of Federal giveaways. I believe we owe it to our great country to work and pay taxes, not to be a burden. But even our proud President has been the beneficiary of the “original affirmative action”. He was a “C” student who somehow got into Yale as a “legacy”. He did his military duty in the “dangerous”(if you were Black) zones of Alabama and Texas because of family connections. We won’t even talk about what happened in little brother’s state with the 2000 election. In a perfect world we all really would be judged solely on qualifications and charecter,but until this old world become perfect we’ll have to keep doing things the way they’ve always been, crepes for some, craps for others.
August 10th, 2005 at 12:05 pm
Jill Stewart has opened the door to the discussion about Condoleezza Rice as a possible contender for the White House in 2008. With her years as a political science professor/Reagan Administration adviser/and then provost of Stanford, she has become (according to Forbes magazine August 15) “the most powerful woman in the world”. Condi has used her brains, her charm, and her strength to climb onto the world stage as Secretary of State; not by depending on a political husband to clear a path for her. Please come to our website:americansforrice.com to come on board the next “Ship of State”, with Condoleezza Rice at the helm. I am the national co-chair for our group and can be reached at 701-306-2705
December 29th, 2005 at 10:54 pm
Interesting. I am a Ronald Reagan Democrat,and I plan to run for Governor of LA in 2007 as such.
Hardy Parkerson, Atty.
Lake Charles, LA
January 7th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Ted Hayes a Rastafarian? The Emporer must be turning in his grave. Too often we confuse a particuler lifestyle for true religion. Rastafarianism is a religion which embraces a philosophey totally contrary to what your typical conservative would tend to believe. While I admire Mr. Hayes for the work he does in his community. Let’s not make him a Rastafarian just because he wears his hair in dreads.
March 9th, 2006 at 10:34 pm
I guess everyone has their take on what a conservative or liberal is.
For instance, I never call lefties liberal.
There is nothing liberal about them.
Amorality, racism, and a hankerin’ for serfdom do not a liberal make.
To me a conservative is someone that prefers reality while understanding the wisdom of time-tested moral lessons - namely how they engender prosperity and justice (both cultural and economic).
To me, they (myself included) are the actual liberals.
Ted Hayes seems a wise man headed for the big time.
He is charismatic and intelligent with an eccentric flair that gets him noticed.
It’s just the sort of thing the GOP needs to counter the racists of the left.
March 9th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
And Hardy, if you’re like John Breaux you might even get my vote, but if you’re like Mary Landreiu, forget it.
(Hailin’ from Mandeville here.)
March 19th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
Hardy is more like Convicted Felon Jim Brown.
April 17th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Found your site after doing a search on Mr. Hayes. Saw him on Neil Cavuto’s Fox News program on April 13th discussing illegal immigrants who are demanding civil rights be handed to them - these same rights that others have had to fight so hard for. He “calls it like he sees it”. I was impressed. Thanks for the info.
October 21st, 2006 at 12:25 pm
sos I an
m a blackman in mount vernon new york and we NEED HELP to stop the hiring illegal alians of all races I am an american 1324a of the us code is the law and we our 51% unimployed good work MR hayes help us please. peace!
October 21st, 2006 at 12:30 pm
we as black people are being pushed to welfare by plan we do not want welfare we want work do not think we are lazzy it is a plan to to inslave us again pleace help us to stop this problem peace joshua askew
October 21st, 2006 at 12:35 pm
we did not ask to come to amirica but we are here citasens of the usa with our 14 amendment rights being trashed please help
November 19th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
March 20, 2006
Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn
By ERIK ECKHOLM
BALTIMORE — Black men in the United States face a far more dire situation than is portrayed by common employment and education statistics, a flurry of new scholarly studies warn, and it has worsened in recent years even as an economic boom and a welfare overhaul have brought gains to black women and other groups.
Focusing more closely than ever on the life patterns of young black men, the new studies, by experts at Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and other institutions, show that the huge pool of poorly educated black men are becoming ever more disconnected from the mainstream society, and to a far greater degree than comparable white or Hispanic men.
Especially in the country’s inner cities, the studies show, finishing high school is the exception, legal work is scarcer than ever and prison is almost routine, with incarceration rates climbing for blacks even as urban crime rates have declined.
Although the problems afflicting poor black men have been known for decades, the new data paint a more extensive and sobering picture of the challenges they face.
“There’s something very different happening with young black men, and it’s something we can no longer ignore,” said Ronald B. Mincy, professor of social work at Columbia University and editor of “Black Males Left Behind” (Urban Institute Press, 2006).
“Over the last two decades, the economy did great,” Mr. Mincy said, “and low-skilled women, helped by public policy, latched onto it. But young black men were falling farther back.”
Many of the new studies go beyond the traditional approaches to looking at the plight of black men, especially when it comes to determining the scope of joblessness. For example, official unemployment rates can be misleading because they do not include those not seeking work or incarcerated.
“If you look at the numbers, the 1990’s was a bad decade for young black men, even though it had the best labor market in 30 years,” said Harry J. Holzer, an economist at Georgetown University and co-author, with Peter Edelman and Paul Offner, of “Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men” (Urban Institute Press, 2006).
In response to the worsening situation for young black men, a growing number of programs are placing as much importance on teaching life skills — like parenting, conflict resolution and character building — as they are on teaching job skills.
These were among the recent findings:
¶The share of young black men without jobs has climbed relentlessly, with only a slight pause during the economic peak of the late 1990’s. In 2000, 65 percent of black male high school dropouts in their 20’s were jobless — that is, unable to find work, not seeking it or incarcerated. By 2004, the share had grown to 72 percent, compared with 34 percent of white and 19 percent of Hispanic dropouts. Even when high school graduates were included, half of black men in their 20’s were jobless in 2004, up from 46 percent in 2000.
¶Incarceration rates climbed in the 1990’s and reached historic highs in the past few years. In 1995, 16 percent of black men in their 20’s who did not attend college were in jail or prison; by 2004, 21 percent were incarcerated. By their mid-30’s, 6 in 10 black men who had dropped out of school had spent time in prison.
¶In the inner cities, more than half of all black men do not finish high school.
None of the litany of problems that young black men face was news to a group of men from the airless neighborhoods of Baltimore who recently described their experiences.
One of them, Curtis E. Brannon, told a story so commonplace it hardly bears notice here. He quit school in 10th grade to sell drugs, fathered four children with three mothers, and spent several stretches in jail for drug possession, parole violations and other crimes.
“I was with the street life, but now I feel like I’ve got to get myself together,” Mr. Brannon said recently in the row-house flat he shares with his girlfriend and four children. “You get tired of incarceration.”
Mr. Brannon, 28, said he planned to look for work, perhaps as a mover, and he noted optimistically that he had not been locked up in six months.
A group of men, including Mr. Brannon, gathered at the Center for Fathers, Families and Workforce Development, one of several private agencies trying to help men build character along with workplace skills.
The clients readily admit to their own bad choices but say they also fight a pervasive sense of hopelessness.
“It hurts to get that boot in the face all the time,” said Steve Diggs, 34. “I’ve had a lot of charges but only a few convictions,” he said of his criminal record.
Mr. Diggs is now trying to strike out on his own, developing a party space for rentals, but he needs help with business skills.
“I don’t understand,” said William Baker, 47. “If a man wants to change, why won’t society give him a chance to prove he’s a changed person?” Mr. Baker has a lot of record to overcome, he admits, not least his recent 15-year stay in the state penitentiary for armed robbery.
Mr. Baker led a visitor down the Pennsylvania Avenue strip he wants to escape — past idlers, addicts and hustlers, storefront churches and fortresslike liquor stores — and described a life that seemed inevitable.
He sold marijuana for his parents, he said, left school in the sixth grade and later dealt heroin and cocaine. He was for decades addicted to heroin, he said, easily keeping the habit during three terms in prison. But during his last long stay, he also studied hard to get a G.E.D. and an associate’s degree.
Now out for 18 months, Mr. Baker is living in a home for recovering drug addicts. He is working a $10-an-hour warehouse job while he ponders how to make a living from his real passion, drawing and graphic arts.
“I don’t want to be a criminal at 50,” Mr. Baker said.
According to census data, there are about five million black men ages 20 to 39 in the United States.
Terrible schools, absent parents, racism, the decline in blue collar jobs and a subculture that glorifies swagger over work have all been cited as causes of the deepening ruin of black youths. Scholars — and the young men themselves — agree that all of these issues must be addressed.
Joseph T. Jones, director of the fatherhood and work skills center here, puts the breakdown of families at the core.
“Many of these men grew up fatherless, and they never had good role models,” said Mr. Jones, who overcame addiction and prison time. “No one around them knows how to navigate the mainstream society.”
All the negative trends are associated with poor schooling, studies have shown, and progress has been slight in recent years. Federal data tend to understate dropout rates among the poor, in part because imprisoned youths are not counted.
Closer studies reveal that in inner cities across the country, more than half of all black men still do not finish high school, said Gary Orfield, an education expert at Harvard and editor of “Dropouts in America” (Harvard Education Press, 2004).
“We’re pumping out boys with no honest alternative,” Mr. Orfield said in an interview, “and of course their neighborhoods offer many other alternatives.”
Dropout rates for Hispanic youths are as bad or worse but are not associated with nearly as much unemployment or crime, the data show.
With the shift from factory jobs, unskilled workers of all races have lost ground, but none more so than blacks. By 2004, 50 percent of black men in their 20’s who lacked a college education were jobless, as were 72 percent of high school dropouts, according to data compiled by Bruce Western, a sociologist at Princeton and author of the forthcoming book “Punishment and Inequality in America” (Russell Sage Press). These are more than double the rates for white and Hispanic men.
Mr. Holzer of Georgetown and his co-authors cite two factors that have curbed black employment in particular.
First, the high rate of incarceration and attendant flood of former offenders into neighborhoods have become major impediments. Men with criminal records tend to be shunned by employers, and young blacks with clean records suffer by association, studies have found.
Arrests of black men climbed steeply during the crack epidemic of the 1980’s, but since then the political shift toward harsher punishments, more than any trends in crime, has accounted for the continued growth in the prison population, Mr. Western said.
By their mid-30’s, 30 percent of black men with no more than a high school education have served time in prison, and 60 percent of dropouts have, Mr. Western said.
Among black dropouts in their late 20’s, more are in prison on a given day — 34 percent — than are working — 30 percent — according to an analysis of 2000 census data by Steven Raphael of the University of California, Berkeley.
The second special factor is related to an otherwise successful policy: the stricter enforcement of child support. Improved collection of money from absent fathers has been a pillar of welfare overhaul. But the system can leave young men feeling overwhelmed with debt and deter them from seeking legal work, since a large share of any earnings could be seized.
About half of all black men in their late 20’s and early 30’s who did not go to college are noncustodial fathers, according to Mr. Holzer. From the fathers’ viewpoint, support obligations “amount to a tax on earnings,” he said.
Some fathers give up, while others find casual work. “The work is sporadic, not the kind that leads to advancement or provides unemployment insurance,” Mr. Holzer said. “It’s nothing like having a real job.”
The recent studies identified a range of government programs and experiments, especially education and training efforts like the Job Corps, that had shown success and could be scaled up.
Scholars call for intensive new efforts to give children a better start, including support for parents and extra schooling for children.
They call for teaching skills to prisoners and helping them re-enter society more productively, and for less automatic incarceration of minor offenders.
In a society where higher education is vital to economic success, Mr. Mincy of Columbia said, programs to help more men enter and succeed in college may hold promise. But he lamented the dearth of policies and resources to aid single men.
“We spent $50 billion in efforts that produced the turnaround for poor women,” Mr. Mincy said. “We are not even beginning to think about the men’s problem on similar orders of magnitude.”
November 19th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
WAKE UP!
BLACK AMERICANS ARE NOT IMMIGRANTS!
We didn’t migrate to America like everyone else. Our families were kidnapped and forced to work for free! We built this country and made the roads for immigrants to travel into America. Aren’t you tired of hearing about RACISM against illegal immigrants? There is nothing racist about enforcing the law. U.S. Code 1324a states it is illegal to hire illegal aliens. American employers are breaking the law to ensure Black Americans can’t work!
Illegal immigrants make $300-$700 per week, are they doing the jobs you wouldn’t do?