Jackson and Sharpton are the worst offenders. They have made millions off the misery of their own people.
To Quote a more famous Black man;
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
Booker T. Washington
You're right - if we could pull blacks into the middle class - by giving them middle class values, Jackson and Sharpton would be out of jobs.