>>If you want to get to the root of the problem is it lack of employment.
I partially disagree, the problem is that there is no longer any penalty for not trying or not succeeding - in fact this country rewards failure (and punishes success)...sit around all day, smock crack and breed children you have no ability to care for and the government will continually reward you with more and more benefits. Men (black men especially), no longer feel they need to take care of their children or families, because the government will do it for them...so they continue to reproduce and cause mayhem at will - and then if they get arrested, we’ve made prisons pretty cushy as well - gyms, basketball courts, color TV, healthcare and 3 meals a day....not a bad deal. How many 18 year old inner city blacks/Hispanics even care if they go to prison for a while?
50-60 years ago, if you didn’t work, you starved, if you went to prison, you did HARD time and your family struggled and possible starved because you would not provide for them. There is no penalty anymore for being a leach of society...the whole government has become oriented to serve these low-life, non-producing scumbags that keep breeding and expecting everyone else to pay for them anything they want.
The real root problem, not just in black communities, is widespread void that formerly was occupied, or at least heavily influenced, by Christian-based morality. This void over a long period of time leads to the prevalence of over-blown greed, self-centeredness and lack of concern for others that makes all these other issues possible, including unemployment.