Friday Front: Bob Herbert on Afro-American Self-Sabotage
Bob Herbert’s column on Tuesday was unusually inspiring. As a rule, I agree with his commentary on the plight of Afro-Americans so completely and with so much sadness that I glance over it quickly, nodding uselessly, but this time my mind quickly filled up with all the important things that, for perfectly good reasons of his own, the columnist was glossing over as not, for the moment, directly relevant.
The older I get, and the longer I look, the more obvious to me it becomes that making America a better place for blacks will make America a better place for everybody else, as well. So I’ll be the first to acknowledge that I write from a position not of high-minded idealism but of enlightened self-interest. No points for me.
