The Patriot Post® · The Problem Is Liberalism

Star Parker: “In a column I wrote a couple years ago, I pointed out that the 41 member Congressional Black Caucus were uniformly Democrats, had a 100% reelection rate, and the average poverty rate in these Congressional Black Caucus districts was 20.3% and the average child poverty rate 28.8% – both well above national averages. Economist Walter Williams has pointed out that, in America’s top 10 poorest cities with populations more than 250,000, ‘…for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal administrations. Some of them – such as Detroit (now the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history), Buffalo, Newark, and Philadelphia, haven’t elected a Republican mayor for more than half a century. What’s more is that, in some cases for decades, the mayors of six of these high-poverty cities have been black Americans.’ Again, the point is not that the mayors of these cities are black. It is that they are liberals. And black politicians … overwhelmingly are liberals, and they remain liberals, despite a long and consistent track record of failure.