Are blacks united? Ask Condoleezza

Stanley Crouch in the Daily News says that "Only a fool would argue that racism in America has died. But one would be equally foolish to argue that the black American community either agrees on or has one true solution to its problems." A good read as we enter the Condi Rice foreign policy era.//JW sends.

As one insider says, "Black people can no longer be looked upon as monolithic, and nobody understands this better than President Bush. He has quietly made very big strides by getting funds to faith-based organizations because the Republicans have discovered that the black churches are ready to do serious work."

In other words, Republicans have discovered that the morality trumpeted by the evangelicals who were so important to their victories in November is shared by the black church community, which has always been conservative on issues regarding personal conduct.

In fact, the black community is on the verge of becoming much more politically splintered. The Democrats would be wise to take the black church into consideration. The party, says one black insider, is "in a free fall because Howard Dean seems destined to be the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, which will doom them for years to come."