Find a thread where people say bad stuff about Bill Ayers or truthers and I don't condemn those folks instead of changing the subject. Take your time, I'll wait.
Ok, now that we have confirmed that didn't happen, lets' talk about the rest of your post. Best I can tell, you and I share a fair amount of background and experiences. Live in the same town, attended the same schools (although in the opposite order) both attorneys, both dads. And so I feel confident in thinking we have been around similar people. I won't speak for you, but I grew up around a large number of racist folks (anti-Semitic and misogynistic as well). Nobody was man enough to say stuff in mixed company, but among similar looking people the ugly stuff just flew around. And not a one of those folks voted for Bill Clinton (or any Democratic nominee for President since). From the 'pubs I know, the party that freed the slaves became the party that thought Jim Crow freedom was enough. Now let's be clear, this isn't across the board by any stretch- but it is a statistically significant population of republicans. Combine those with the country-club republicans who just want to make sure their tax rate is as low as possible (and could give 2 shits about anybody- black or white- on the bottom part of the economy), and there is a pretty big chunk of 'pubs who aren't voting with the best interests of black folks in mind.
I don't dispute that black folks (or at least poor black folks) have it bad in this country. And I am sure there are unintended consequences of the Great Society that haven't helped certain folks on the lower end of the economic spectrum. The difference between two of us is that I recognize that the only thing worse for most black folks than the policies of the Democratic party are the policies of the Republican party.
And stop with the platitudes- everybody wants accountability in schools. The problem, as always, is what is the appropriate way to measure performance. NCLB was and is an abject failure at that. I don't trust kids to be protected by making the principal the judge and jury of the schools, and I'm sure you would agree you don't want either John Tedesco or Kevin Hill making that decision either. I generally think that a system that combines parts that include test scores, parent surveys, principal evaluations and other teacher evaluations should work, but even that is subject to pretty major abuse.
One final point to grow on- you seem awfully focused on the purported advantages black folks supposedly receive in this world and the supposed failures of the Great Society. At no point have you ever recognized the one of the biggest problems effecting poor black people today- the drug war. Black communities have been decimated because "law and order" elected officials have repeatedly over-criminalized drug use and imprisoned multiple generations of black me as a result. Advocate to fix that problem.