Back To Root Causes

John Kerry cooked up some very strange statistics yesterday, and a very strange explanation. He claimed that more blacks were in prison than in college, which isn't true. Then, he said that it was not the fault of the criminals that they committed crimes - it was a shortage of federally funded daycares.

Talking about education yesterday, Mr. Kerry also told the largely black crowd at the day care center that there are more blacks in prison than in college.
"That's unacceptable," he said. "But it's not their fault."
Rather than the inmates, the former Boston prosecutor blamed poverty, poor schools, a dearth of after-school programs and "all of us as adults not doing what we need to do."

Now wait just a minute. I thought the problem was that we didn't have enough federally funded midnight basketball leagues, than that problem was solved a decade ago.