Years of protest, paid with the personal sacrifice of thousands culminated in the 1964 Civil Rights Act which brought new found freedoms to millions. The state machinery which had segregated white and black people, was dismantled and a new era of black advancement began. But did black people really gain from the ending of segregation in the way liberals claim?

The myth of the "Black male shortage" is the most insidious weapon of mass distraction since the epidemic of Korean hair weaves stitched to the scalps of legions of women of African descent.

The Knowles' family business, "House of Dereon," recently published advertisements for its "Dereon Girls Collection" with young models who look no older than my second-grade daughter. They are seductively posed and tarted up, JonBenet Ramsey-style, with bright lipstick, blush and face powder.