Mississippi has just signed a civil rights lawsuit settlement that requires it to spend more money on its black colleges and universities. This demonstrates a landmark liberal failure, but YOU WILL ONLY READ IT HERE.

All those who are allowed to speak, meaning liberals and respectable conservatives, are required to have no memory. But I remember that one goal of the civil rights movement was the abolition of overwhelmingly black education on every level.

Integration, as only some black leaders now admit, was supposed to bring on the millennium in education. Races were supposed to be the same in everything but skin color, so the only thing preventing equal education was separate schools.

Southerners who actually cared about blacks said black problems could best be dealt with in black schools.

If I had told an integrationist in 1960 that the NAACP would be fighting for better funding for overwhelmingly black higher education in 2001, he would have laughed at me. It turns out that having a black higher education system is indispensable in dealing with many black problems.

In 1960, as today, liberals laughed at the common-sense solution to any problem. Back then I insisted that punishment, not "rehabilitation," would reduce crime. That was very unfashionable in 1960.

It is generally conceded today that the more repeat criminals that are locked up, the lower the crime rate will be. Only the truly hypnotic left still believes that criminals are merely "victims of society." For example, the New York Times said last year that, "Crime is on the decrease, EVEN THOUGH PRISON POPULATIONS HAVE INCREASED."

As usual, what is a contradiction to a liberal is common sense to a sane person

Today's young folks have an answer to that kind of totally warped inability to face reality. They say, "Well, DUHH!"

Sane social policy can only be reached after we have gone through a horrible, costly, disastrous period of taking liberal policy seriously. So it was with crime and so it must be with black education.

Until we look at the old, insane leftist arguments as what they really are and reject them, we cannot return to sanity.

Most people now know how insane the old liberal policy on crime was. Criminals are not just victims of an evil society, as every liberal said in 1960. They must be punished for crime to be prevented.

On race policy, liberals still require conservatives to forget how insane their original justifications were. Policy in that area will remain a disaster as long as that denial persists.

Nothing liberals advocate ever WORKS. So liberals have to deal with constant failure, and they are used to it. They have several established ways of doing this.

First and foremost, liberals use respectable conservatives to make sure their repeated failures are never mentioned. In 1960, integration was supposed to get rid of what were then considered the incredibly high black rates of illegitimacy, drug use and crime. Now those 1960 black statistics are the average WHITE rates, and blacks are much, much worse off.

Blacks are better off now in some ways, such as pay. But their RATE of improvement in these areas was just as fast before integration and affirmative action policies were established.

So liberal policies are a disaster, as usual. But no conservative who does not want to be shrieked at and then ignored ever mentions such a thing.

The reason liberalism always fails is because it always violates common sense. One old common-sense saying was "one rotten apple spoils the barrel." Naturally, liberals sought to deal with those terrible black statistics by dumping the black students in wholesale with white students. The only result, as the old wisdom would have predicted, was that whites went down to black levels.