The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.

Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.

Some of the federal programs to help homeowners were never fully implemented.

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.