And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.