Go HERE to read the full The Washington Times article by Deborah Simmons.  Very interesting read.

Excerpt:

To that end, Mr. Gray and D.C. Council members are pushing job-training programs — a throwback to the 1960s and '70s politics that spawned the very problems we have today.

Back then, as Jim Crow was dying a horrible death, liberal and black politicians pushed federal, state and local job-training programs. One such law, the federal Workforce Investment Act, claimed its mission was to provide job training, adult education and work-force development programs that would help states and localities train and retrain workers.

Well, if initiatives like that work, why such staggering unemployment numbers among black folk two generations later?