Reply #65: I've worked with mayors and civic leaders of black cities hoping to find a paradigm that will help

[jody]

reach the goals you espouse. I've worked with presidents and deans of HBCU and business leaders and still have not found a combination that worked consistently even though transitory effects have been initially lauded by government and media.

The true measure of success of such programs is what has changed ten, twenty years after the initial effort.

I weep because not much has changed and I keep asking "Where did we go wrong, what didn't we do that would have made a lasting difference?"

I remember Psalms 13:1 "How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?"

:cry: