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Wow! Self- Righteous Name-calling

Bigot?
Cartoon characterization of conservatives?
Pure bigotry?
Hate-filled ideology?
You sound, strangely, like a condescending, paternalistic liberal.

Spit on what sacrifices?

Jackson, Sharpton, Waters and the rest are paid politicians who work at the behest of powerful interests who even you won't dare to publically castigate. It's easier to vent on the puppets of the power brokers. You wouldn't dare root out the source of their backing and call the powerful ones to order. That would take true courage.

I realize that it is difficult entertain the concept that there are African Americans who are neither democrat nor republican, who don't view their lives nor their culture through the prism of party politics. There are literally millions of us who work tirelessly in our families and communities to improve our lot for the next generation. Our continued work and high expectations are the reasons that over 56% of African American joined the middle class in less than 50 years. It is why we now have the highest black home ownership in the history of this nation. And why we have more of our children in college than has ever been recorded since our arrival on these shores. It is our obligation to build institutions, and design avenues to bring the black hard-core underclass out from the chaos of low expectations. And we will succeed.
This is our country. We don't need any Johnny-come-latelies telling us the nature of this land nor the character it's people, nor attempting to condescendingly confer your brand of true citizenship upon us. We earned our citizenship a long time ago. No other people have paid the price we as black Americans have paid to make this the greatest nation on earth; from the Indian and Revoluntionary wars to the War on Terrorism, our men and women have fought and died in every war ever launched for American freedom. Just as the Irish, Italians, the Jews and others, had to go through their tunnels of dysfunction: high out of wedlock birthrate, high criminality, domestic abuse, and broken families; we shall also emerge from the negative side-affects of our experiences here. We are well on the way to accomplishing these goals. In the meantime our interests are best served by investing our human resources in the education, uplift and development of our communities by building strong individuals and the structuring of stable families. We will realize this by harnessing the resources of our collective African American church network as a vehicle to providing a safe Christian climate in which to nurture accomplished students, and self-restrainted responsible citizens. We know where we are. We know how we got here. We know where we want to go. Many of us have already attained the dreams of our grandparents. But we shall not rest until we all reach "the promised land".