Fantasies in black and white
Senior NPR correspondent Juan Williams saw a big story in a certain dry statistic earlier this month. As Williams wrote "53 percent of black Americans now agree that 'blacks who can't get ahead are mostly responsible for their own condition.'"
Williams was quoting a poll on the attitudes of black Americans released Nov. 13 by Pew Research Center/NPR. African-Americans now seem to agree with a majority of whites that black poverty is a problem of individual responsibility rather than a social issue.
But if virtually everyone believes something, does that then make it true?
JAMES HANNAHAM in SALON.