The Bigger Picture of What’s Wrong With Black America

As an African American educated male that will not forget the burden of slavery’s outcome, but will forgive to enhance and move blacks in America forward. I do support affirmative action, but only with preferential hiring in limited circumstances, e.g., hiring more male teachers, for lower grades since studies have shown that many minority children, because of high divorce rates and out of wed-lock marriages, come from single parent homes where the father is not present.  The focus for affirmative opportunity should be to simply hire more minorities out of fairness, where public schools are more than 60% minorities. I have to admit that as a person that does believe in “affirmative opportunity” one of the classic examples of the benefits of affirmative action is Justice Clarence Thomas on the United States Supreme Court.

In the past sixteen years, the United States has come to know a conservative icon that has not always sided with the bulk of black America, which politically can be taboo. Justice Thomas stated in a past interview, “I’m Black”, I’m supposed to think a certain way. I’m supposed to have certain opinions. I don’t do that. You don’t create a box and put people in and make generalizations about them.” It was at that moment when I heard these statements I smiled with glee, to know that someone other than I understood the bigger picture of what’s wrong with black America. I thought, we finally have realized to think for ourselves, which is taboo in black politics.