Booray, you have just stepped on my toes.

"If the black underclass would succeed, in mass, in climbing out of poverty, breaking the shackles of discrimination and bigotry, and achieving true political power, then they would no longer be slaves to the politicians who use and abuse them . . .."

Booray, I happen to be black, and a successful businessman. I make a point not to discriminate on ANY basis. To assure that, our employment applications have a number, not a name. The applicant takes the number with him. If qualified, and willing to work, they're going to work and the little stuff makes no difference: by little stuff, I mean race, gender -- anything that the person did not choose.

However, we work with some very nasty stuff, so we have to make criminal background checks on ALL qualified applicants. Working with hazardous materials (including explosives and explosive components) means that anyone who is forbidden to carry a sidearm, to protect that nasty stuff, won't get the job. Sorry, folks, it isn't a perfect world.

I had to turn down a veteran recently because his mother-in-law likes to play games and railroaded him into a phoney assault conviction. Feminists really do like to ruin men's lives and they really do giggle and howl with joy whenever they drive a man to bankruptcy, divorce, and eventually suicide.

That is the sole and exclusive definition of "Women's Empowerment" as settled decades ago by Sisterhood of Eden and NOW. Lilith Society and a few other cults are nastierr still. That sort of bitter and infuriating discrimination stinks on ice but when you must deal with that sort of lunatic daily, it gets old in a heartbeat.

If you want to see the real cause of poverty in America, you must take cult misfeasance into account.