what is frightening about 1997 is the erosion of the systems of caring and nurturing in America at large, but in particular,black America.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Community affairs or human relations and even that would have been and few between.

If we had a whole wave of new leaders in the next five to seven years, black America would be a different place.

The crisis in black America is threefold...economic...political...and spiritual.

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate consumption, especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity. This market activity has contributed greatly to the disorientation and confusion of American youth, and those with less education and fewer opportunities bear the brunt of this cultural chaos.