Prometheus 6

The View From Room 306
By DAVID BROOKS

Building the social fabric after the disruption of that period has been the work of the subsequent generations — weaving the invisible web of family, neighborhood and national obligations so that people stay in school, attend to their kids and have an opportunity to rise if they play by the rules.

Too bad Black folks were STILL left out of all that.

Martin Luther King Jr. at least left behind a model of how to repair the social fabric. He was scholarly, formal, assertive and meticulously self-controlled in public.

How's that working for you?

Not YOU, Brooks. We know you and your ilk like us passive. But realistically, you can't get WHITE people to act that way. And note your own words:

King was in crisis when he was gunned down.

"We've made progress! We've made progress!"