I think it's interesting that no one has posted a comment to this story. I wonder if it's because no one ia interested in this CNN program. Peersonally, I'm sick to death of the advertisment for this show and have made a decision that I'd rather be waterboarded than watch it.

All of the side stories from the "Black In America" are how bad the Black has it and how it's all the fault of the whites. I used to be a very liberal person who thought about the problems of race in America, and tried to help with the solution. Now, because of the constant repetition of "It's the white man's fault", I have lost of my will to help.

Keep up the good work.

I have an anrcdote about education.

I knew a girl whose father was of Irish extraction and born in the USA. He and his wife had a daughter.

The daughter decided that she needed to be Hispanic during high school. To this end, by graduation she could hardly speak english anymore. She had become what she wanted to be.

The school was probably 35-40 hispanic and her friends were all Hispanic. No anglos.

What I'm trying to say here is you can choose your own path. You can succeed or fail. The students of my school who wanted to succeed did, those who wanted to fail did.

Ever heard of Brew 102? Brewed in La. I don't know if it was ever brewed anywhere else. Sold for $.99 a sixer when Bud was $1.50 a sixer.

Worst beer ever brewed but you could get drunk on it.

We seem to be missing the point about Georgia. Remember the WWII? Remember Hitler "We're only trtying to protect ethnic Germans" line. And no one did anything because they were gutless.

Now, here we are. Not gutless but toothless. We have over extended ourselves with Iraq and we have absolutely no ability to do a damn thing.

Bush "talked sternly" to Putin. Big friggin deal.

I exect Obama to say it shows how costly the war in Iraq has been and how that war has cost not just the USA but the world political stability.

I expect Bush and/or McCain to try to tell us how the democrats have weakened the military and how only the republicans can save the military and therefore the USA and the world.

The UN is totally unable and unwilling to do anything and Russia can and I think will continue to reconstitute itself as the USSR. And there's not a damn thing that we can or will do.

But be sure to keep that sport of sports badminton... and don't forget sycnronized swimming and diving. Be sure and keep those extremely popular sports.

How about fencing? How about rhythmic gymnastics? Boy, they are real big sports aren't they.

Hey, I've got it. Let's not have popular sporta at all. Only curling, cherry pit spitting and tossing the caber.

I can't believe what I have read here. Both the author and most of the posters are writing from positions of extreme ignorance.

Actually, I do believe what I have read here. God help me, I'm getting used to this lowering of discourse.

I've read all manner of verbal flotsam based on notthing more that preconcieved notions, false premises, bigotry and a complete lack of understanding.

To misquote Jon Stewart."Stop. You are hurting the country".

The Supreme Court of the United States of America. I fear the Superme Court of the United Stated of America. Imagine that concept. An organization who's duty is to interpret the federal law of this land and decide if laws of the many states comply with the Constitution.

Until the middle of the 20th century it was ok for states to obtain confessions through torture. Then came Escobedo. Since then the Supreme Court has been chipping away at that decision. Now you can get a coherced confession that you can't use unless the defendant decides to exercise his/her right to testify. Now where in the Constitution is that mentioned? So much for original intent.

We have/had Miranda. The Supreme Court is trying to destroy that decision. So much for Stare Decisis. It seems to be that the court is trying to modify prior decision rather that overturning them. A court with guts would do the latter rather than the former.

I've read quite a few court cases and I was always struck by the way they were written. The language used in the decision was precise and beautiful and based upon president and logic. Today and for the last 70 years or so the quality of the writing and reasoning has, for the most part, declined. The Supreme Court has become a political arm of government. Warren Burger is reported as saying that the court must decide a certain issue in a certain way because the President wanted that decision

Today the writing is obviously based upon obtaining a desired result. Logic is twisted until ot must scream in pain, and precident is turned on it's end. I find it laughable that Scalia is an "Originalist". He and Alito and Roberts are as activist as any "Lefty" justice ever was.

As I worry about McCain's possible appointees, I also worry about Obama's possible appointees. I feel that both these men will continue to appoint idealogues to the courts. One will curtail civil rights while the other is likely to appoint iedalogues from the other end of the spectrum. Either way I fear the Superme Court of the United Stated of America.