Thanks for posting. He makes some good points.
While I would argue for massive investment in black communities, I think that would raise the question of what about the majority of poor people in the US who are white? Intergenerational poverty is just as real among them. And their neighborhoods can be just as run down. In black communities you get crack houses, in white communities you get meth houses.
Ultimately two things need to happen: first, we have to convert this culture, this nation, to the Faith. That is paramount and the single most important thing on our plate now and always. Second, some kind of real war on poverty, only this time not the top down approach of Washington but a system based on Catholic social teaching.
