Ultimately, man makes his own destiny. You can blame Dunderhead. You can put your hopes in Dunderhead. But no one can live your life for you. My primary criticism of ‘black leaders’, is that they spend so much time blaming everybody, and everything, but they don’t go back to the community, grab the young man by his lapels, and tell him to straighten up and fly right. So, you get what you get.
The shorter version I prefer is “God bless the child that’s got his own”. And it was written by Billie Holiday. That should be an additional selling point, at least if they attended school during Black History Month.