Lego, I am very much for giving all people equal opportunity to progress.

There are gifted and hard-working people in all races that would do well with the right opportunities, as has been proven in the US experience.

All I endeavoured to do with the opinion piece was show how Blacks and Hispanics trail in terms of education and wealth levels, and suggest that improvement in those areas would help improve race relations, and build further upon gains made since the Civil Rights legislation.

I do not support any education approach that blames Whites for the current situation.

Chris, if you believe in equal opportunity, then you are not politically correct. Minorities in the USA are now demanding equality of outcomes. What this means is that somehow, minorities expect the US government to make their lifestyles the equal of whites and Asians. No wonder socialism is now so popular among dysfunctional minorities. Socialists have never succeeded in making everybody rich, but they sure as hell are good at making everybody poor.

I agree that there are smart people in all races who have a strong work ethic and there should be no impediment to such people prospering. But the problem with some minorities, is that there are so few of them. But your article said that education was the answer to black disadvantage, citing schools for minorities being having less money than with predominantly white students. But if the article in "The Australian" was correct, the NT government spends four times more on aboriginal students than on other races for a 90% aboriginal failure rate in NAPLAN.

Could I submit Detroit as an example of so called African poverty caused by blacks themselves? Detroit was once of the richest cities in the USA, and it in 1940 was almost exclusively white. But money attracts poor people and in time, African Americans began to take over entire suburbs, leading to "white flight" from "black" areas now notorious for very high levels of violent crime.

In time, so many African Americans migrated to Detroit that African Americans became a real political force. Power switched from the Republicans to the Democrats. With the election of black politicians and the infiltration of the bureaucracy of blacks through "affirmative action", taxes rose steeply to buy the black welfare vote, crime skyrocketed, and the productive whites fled Detroit, leaving entire suburbs of empty houses.. With the loss of the productive, tax paying whites, the city went bankrupt. But black Democrat leadership did not go bankrupt. The black political and public servants are among the highest paid in the USA. This includes the guy in charge of Detroit education, who is illiterate.

Lego, yes there will long be city developments that can be cited.

But, as my article indicated, levels of integration in many US cities has improved.

I believe that this will improve further as Blacks gain education and wealth.

I could be wrong, but I feel that greater integration and interaction helps improve sentiment, especially when all get their chance to prosper.

Sure, you raise important issues about how much Blacks and Hispanics may demand if they gain dominance in certain areas. For example, these two groups argue in certain areas of LA about what language should be taught in schools.

But that is another issue.

I heard yesterday on NPR that some blacks want reparations for slavery. I certainly do not support that

I do not believe that integration rates in many US cities have improved, any more than I believe that covid-19 originated in the Wuhan wet market, or that President Trump was a Russian agent. The histories of successful US cities shows that they are becoming white free as taxpaying whites flee rising taxes, and the incredible violence and crime perpetuated by African and Hispanic young men, who for the most part get their living from white welfare. White flight is accelerating as crime soars because politicians representing crime prone minority groups pander to the stupidities of their unintelligent electors and "Defund the Police."

One book I read by Vance Packard claimed that the fear of Africans among white families are so great, that in white areas with stable real estate prices, agents have been known to "seed" a few black families into a "white" suburb to start real estate prices plunging.

If anything, racial tensions in the USA are coming close to boiling over into either separatism or civil war. This is especially so now that the Dems are talking about stacking the US High Court with 6 more judges, and even saying that non citizens should be allowed to vote in US elections. Even more incredibly, you, yourself, agree with that clear violation of democratic principles.

Here is you saying just that.

"One hopes that the Supreme Court will continue to block any attempt to make it difficult for non-White residents to participate in the political process"

When a free and armed people realise that crooked politicians have manipulated the political system to such a degree that they use identity politics to divide and rule, and to over ride democracy, by stacking electorates with border crossing foreign citizens, then you are looking at a civil war. This is especially so when these self same rabble rousing politicians never cease promoting racist attitudes by sneering at "deplorable" white people. The portent of instability came with the "storming" of Congress. I am staggered that you are blind to the consequences of what you have written.

Yes Lego.

It is very important that all Americans vote in the political process, and that the courts uphold this right.

Perhaps you did not bother to click on your own link regarding the Supreme Court ruling against the Trump administrations decision to use the US census to query US residents about their citizenship? The idea, of course, was to find out just how many people in the USA were actually citizens of the USA, who were eligible to vote in US elections. At the very least it could give some indication of just how bad voter fraud was becoming. The court rejected the application, apparently on a mere legal technicality.

After the last US presidential election, it was revealed that one US state ended having more adult electors than it could possibly have, according to the last population census. This indicated that the last Presidential election was probably rigged.

It does not matter now if the US election was rigged or not. What matters is that the perception that if elections are now being rigged is an extremely dangerous development in US politics. It is in the interests of every single US citizen that elections must not be perceived as being rigged. Once one side or the other believes that the electoral process is a fraud, that opens the way to anarchy and civil war.

The fact that the Dems did rig the election was born out by their opposition to reasonable proposal for voter ID at polling stations. They knew that large numbers of illegal immigrant foreign citizens, and even legal foreign residents, had illegally taken part in the US elections, and that this fact very much favoured the Democrats.

The Dems opposed voter ID because they wanted the fraud to continue. And since you, yourself praised the court's decision, I presume that you too think that foreign citizens voting in US (and even Australian?) elections is a wonderful idea?