I am not interested in pointing fingers. I am not looking to assign blame. I have no interest in diving into the sewer of partisan politics. I am simply trying to reach out to one person who I believe can make a real difference with regard to the greatest failure in American “leadership” over the course of the last seven decades.

I refer, of course, to the complete abandonment by both political parties of millions of innocent men, women and children in America’s crumbling inner-cities. The vast majority of those abandoned are Black, with children paying the highest price of all.

This is a national disgrace and an obscenity that should haunt our dreams. But it is largely ignored because it has become one of the electrified “third rails” of politics that should never be acknowledged or addressed. Why? Because of blind allegiance to those who created the tragedy.

Who truly cares about the most continuous and inhumane failure in modern American history? Honestly, next to no one. Why? Powerful forces from both political parties want and need to keep it that way.

Some people will give me little credibility on this subject just because I am an older white guy. But I have a history in this dystopian urban world. As a child, I grew up in abject poverty and was homeless often. By the time I was 17, I had been evicted from 34 homes. A number of those evictions relocated me into housing projects and school classes where I was often the only white child.

That experience was one of the greatest blessings of my life. At an early age, I got to witness that Black America was a great and caring America. I bonded with that community like none since. My earliest heroes........

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