By all means

Let's have a national conversation about race and poverty.

But it must be a conversation where everything is on the table. Along with the thoughts of the Rev. Jesse Jackson and rapper Kanya West, we have to read and talk about scholars and intellectuals who present an entirely different diagnosis of the racial ills of America.

I wouldn't hold my breath. In certain quarters this has been a taboo subject since the 1965 Moynihan Report. And years of multi-culti indoctrination and PC language prohibitions haven't made the climate more favorable for such a discussion.