The recent uproar over the crime and despair in Baltimore has shined a national spotlight on the fact that people have been waiting years for government solutions to fix the problems plaguing America’s inner cities — solutions that seldom, if ever, come.
Years ago, as a black woman who had come out of the projects, I realized that the cavalry wasn’t coming. The government wasn’t riding in with the solutions to save the day and revitalize our once-thriving inner cities. Frankly, it was…