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OK - We Get It


I am a huge consumer of public broadcasting content. For reasons which puzzle me, these services seem determined to plow the furrow of victim hood, unleavened by coverage of a way forward. Stated more simply, after being reminded many, many times of the slave era, the era of Jim Crow, the efforts of MLK and others in the 1960s ...... what am I to do? What is anyone to do? To be sure, an education on the history of blacks in America is vital.

However, I often ask myself, when I will I begin to hear persuasive coverage which might actually aid beleaguered black communities? You know the issues: teen pregnancy, male parental abandonment, family disintegration, educational failures, drugs, gangs, and heinous violence. Is there any hope of change of these are not also addressed? Is there any hope of change if the essentially dead-end of scolding is all the public is left with?

Thank you for reading,

Hubert Smith

155 Offord Circle

Jacksonville, OR

97530