If you missed hour two of Sunday's radio edition of the National Conversation, you need to podcast it. We talked about a conversation that I had with "at risk" inner city youth and what they see as the biggest problem in the black community.

They agree with me and other right thinking Americans. The absent father is the heart of the problem. Voices from the mainstream media are also starting to be heard. Here are two from last week.

Where does low achievement come from? High school teacher Patrick Welsh writes in The Washington Post: "Why don't you guys study like the kids from Africa?"

In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test I had just given. A kid who seldom came to class -- and was constantly distracting other students when he did -- shot back: "It's because they have fathers who kick their butts and make them study."

Another student angrily challenged me: "You ask the class, just ask how many of us have our fathers living with us." When I did, not one hand went up.

I was stunned. These were good kids; I had grown attached to them over the school year. It hit me that these students, at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, understood what I knew too well: The lack of a father in their lives had undermined their education. The young man who spoke up knew that with a father in his house he probably wouldn't be ending 12 years of school in the bottom 10 percent of his class with a D average. His classmate, normally a sweet young woman with a great sense of humor, must have long harbored resentment at her father's absence to speak out as she did. Both had hit upon an essential difference between the kids who make it in school and those who don't: parents.

My students knew intuitively that the reason they were lagging academically had nothing to do with race, which is the too-handy explanation for the achievement gap in Alexandria. And it wasn't because the school system had failed them. They knew that excuses about a lack of resources and access just didn't wash at the new, state-of-the-art, $100 million T.C. Williams, where every student is given a laptop and where there is open enrollment in Advanced Placement and honors courses. Rather, it was because their parents just weren't there for them -- at least not in the same way that parents of kids who were doing well tended to be.

Along the same lines, Yahoo News ran an

with this extraordinary headline:

The article references the famous Moynihan Report which foretold the future of the Black family way back in 1965. Today deviancy is entrenched, multigenerational poverty is largely black; and it is intricately intertwined with the collapse of the nuclear family in the inner city.

By now, these facts shouldn't be hard to grasp. Almost 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers. Those mothers are far more likely than married mothers to be poor, even after a post-welfare-reform decline in child poverty. They are also more likely to pass that poverty on to their children.

This is not a new problem, quoting from the same article:

Consider a memo written in 1965 to President Lyndon Johnson from Moynihan in which the Assistant Labor Secretary expressed his great concern over the high rate of out-of-wedlock births among blacks (25 percent at that time). Unaddressed, Mr. Moynihan predicted, this large number of fatherless children would result in increasing school failure, criminal delinquency, and joblessness. Sadly, because liberals across the board condemned this call for action as racist propaganda, President Johnson didn't want to risk heated public debate and so did nothing.

The recent Chicago incident, and countless others that occur daily, are the result of not heeding Moynihan's warning 44 years ago. The previous out-of-wedlock birthrate has almost tripled, and 7 out of 10 black children now grow up not only without a father, but also in disproportionate poverty. That means millions of young kids lack adequate parental guidance to make the transition to become successful adults.secretary expressed his great concern over the high rate of out-of-wedlock births among blacks (25 percent at that time). Unaddressed, Mr. Moynihan predicted, this large number of fatherless children would result in increasing school failure, criminal delinquency, and joblessness. Sadly, because liberals across the board condemned this call for action as racist propaganda, President Johnson didn't want to risk heated public debate and so did nothing.
The recent Chicago incident, and countless others that occur daily, are the result of not heeding Moynihan's warning 44 years ago. The previous out-of-wedlock birthrate has almost tripled, and 7 out of 10 black children now grow up not only without a father, but also in disproportionate poverty. That means millions of young kids lack adequate parental guidance to make the transition to become successful adults.

Liberals often try to dodge the implications of this bleak reality but this is largely a low-income--and disproportionately black--phenomenon. Unfortunately, John Edwards was right, well sort of... America is now a two-family nation, separate and unequal--one intact and thriving, and the other struggling, fragmented, and far too often, Black.

The likes Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton need to take a time off from bashing the NFL over Rush Limbaugh's desire to buy the St. Louis Rams (with HIS own money mind you...) and start speaking truth to deviancy in the black community.

On second thought, Al and Jesse need to sit down and shut the hell up. The rising tide of black conservatism is on the job.

The Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, The NAACP, Urban League, and the National Action Committee of Al Sharpton, (Democrats all) stand guard as abortion does what the Klan only dreamed of...  systematically destroy black babies in the name of choice and civil rights.

Read the story here.

Happy Birthday

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In da hood... One day only!

  $27,000.00 cash! Aged Italian designer car.

It's not everyday you see a Lamborghini parked on the street, for sale, in the hood.

Well, that's not exactly what I said, but you get the point.

I want to thank all of you who poured into Veterans Park yesterday for what was billed as Milwaukee's largest tea party. I expected protestors, there were hardly any. I expected some rowdiness, there was absolutely none! I looked for signs of racism.... none, zero, nada!

Hmmm...

On several occasions I wandered through the crowd meeting and greeting people as they arrived. The event was a multi-generational affair. It was a slice of America, it was inspiring. I will never forget the 87 year old woman who grabbed me and held on tight. As I bent down to hug her, she squeezed me and whispered in her broken voice, Thank you for coming! She was welcoming me to her party! When I looked up, I saw what looked to be her entire family, three generations worth! Her daughter said, "My mother turned us all on to your show! She's the reason we are down here today! Can we take your picture with her?"

"Of course you can. Snap away!"

There are hundreds more stories like this one. Stories about the crowd, the excitement, about love of country and the brotherhood of man. It kills me that the DI's of the world (Deficient-ly Interested) get to re-define, through bias and contempt, what thousands of people experienced as positive and inspiring.

Jimmy Carter, Bill Cosby... DI's.  Danny Infernos ... Deficient-ly Interested.

As many of you know, I don't consider myself to be part of the main stream media, but my "credentials" gained me access to two of the headline speakers at yesterday's rally.

I guess membership does have its privilege.

Michelle Malkin: Sigh. Brilliant, beautiful, on purpose. I used my allotted time to thank her for her support after my McCain moment. She didn't know me at the time but she did come to my defense at HotAir.com. Her acknowledgment inspired me. It also alerted the Conservative calvary who soon rode to the rescue. I was grateful for the chance to finally thank her. personally.

Joe The Plumber: Incredible fit (As in, "Dude, do you work out?"). Genuine, plain spoken, libertarian. I finally got to thank Joe for taking the heat off me. He was amused at the thought that his hell was my salvation! It was a genuine moment.

Both speakers rocked the house along with everyone else who took the stage. In less than a year, I have now attended the ultimate town hall meeting and the largest tea party in Wisconsin's history. Both events were amazing in how they brought together the best in people, the best in civic pride, and in love of God and love of country.  I believe that makes me uniquely qualified to say that people who characterize what they see through media as racist.... are racist.

More to come...

Today is the day people! Be Part of History!Americans For Prosperity - Wisconsin Chapter

& The Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty Present:

A Taxpayer Tea Party/Milwaukee Constitution Day Celebration!

WHAT: Wisconsin's Largest Tea Party

WHEN: TODAY, Saturday, September 19, 2009, 3:00 - 5:00 PM

WHERE: Veterans Park, 1010 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive, Milwaukee, Wisconsin