Upsetting statistics that most people will not even want to discuss out of fear of being called a racist. Well .. I don't think that the "R" word counts for much of anything any more ... so here goes. I found these in a George Will column that is well worth your attention.

Will writes of some of the findings of a sociology professor named Nathan Glazer. In an article in American Interest Glazer puts forth some alarming statistics on what he calls "the black condition." Glazer is concerned that with the election of Obama any discussion of the black condition in America has all but disappeared.

Here .. try some of the statistics:

70% of black children born in the United States are born to unmarried women.

More than 60% of black high school dropouts born since the mid-1960s go to prison.

For every bachelor's degree conferred on a black man, 2 are conferred on a black woman.

Only 35% of black children live with two parents.

And here's an interesting number ...

By age 4 the average child in a professional family hears 20 million more words than the average child in a working-class family and about 35 million more than the average child in a welfare family.

Well .. the statistics are certainly sad, but we just can't discuss them, can we? That would be racist, right? Never mind the fact that none of these troubling statistics can be blamed on skin pigmentation. Racism doesn't force black women to have children out of wedlock ... culture pressures can surely play a role. Racism doesn't force young black men out of high school and into street crime ... but a culture that treats learning as "acting white" (something else addressed by Glazer) certainly does.

See that link above? Click on it ... read the column. The last paragraph is an eye-opener.

A little dialogue, anyone?