In October 2009 a black teenager was beaten to death on the south side of Chicago. This event, all too common in Chicago and elsewhere in America’s cities, brought much hand wringing and calls for reform in the black community. The same cries for change have been coming from the same corners for decades, yet nothing changes, and the problem only seems more entrenched. I wrote about this back in January, lamenting that modern liberals refuse to see that the breakdown of the black family is the cause of crime in America’s inner cities. Allow me to quote myself: Empirical data cannot break through the ossified ideology of the committed leftist. It is tragic, sickening and heartbreaking. Forty plus years of evidence means nothing to these people. Back in the early 80s when Barack Obama started his community organizer career, a young Chicago basketball star was gunned down in cold blood. The same hand wringing, angry meetings, community frustration and local government promises to do something went on then as today when poor Derrion Albert was clubbed to death. As long as the modern liberal worldview is pervasive in those communities and among their leaders, 30 years from now we

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