White and black: It's all good

Recently I’ve been called everything but a child of God; some names can’t be repeated in a family newspaper. These assaults have come as I have written about changes in D.C. Public Schools while exposing unpleasant realities. Using the work of the Capitol Hill Public School Parents Organization as an illustration, I have asserted that determined parents can revive neighborhood schools and wondered why there hadn’t been Ward 6-like activism in predominantly black Wards 5, 7 and 8. I have criticized black middle- class families for abandoning institutions in their communities, choosing instead to send their children to places like mostly white Ward 3.

Why am I focusing on this issue now, some have asked.