Nothing will change until that happens.
You can "march for peace" until you drop from exhaustion. You can, as commentator Donte' L. Hickman recently did, complain about "unjustly oppressed citizens" and "dilapidation and disinvestment that have crippled poor communities" ("We must redouble our efforts now that the Freddie Gray cameras are gone," May 22).
But until black leaders begin to talk about personal responsibility, about the indifference of young black men to the children they create, about the family being the absolute core of a stable and prosperous society, you will continue to reap a harvest of shootings, drug-ridden neighborhoods and urban decline.
Thomas F. McDonough, Towson