Education is the key. I also think that black americans need positive role models not Rev Al, Jesse Jackson, or 50 cent.
There are countless good Black role models--from Oprah to Tina Turner to Condoleezza Rice to Walter Williams to Herman Cain to..........and most of all: all of those millions of fine, good, outstanding people who do their jobs, take care of their families, teach their children to be good people, go to church, are good citizens! This is success in itself. But if Americans of African descent--or any descent!--want to be prosperous, their best bet is to get an education--and insist that their children do--and disregard the self-serving propaganda of the Marxist Left.