The author has drunk the Cool-Aid.
Not at all. You need to understand what he is doing - first by not repeating the actions of the Left, and second by noting that there are no excuses left for black people to fail in the USA and that he should advocate the advantages that he got (not aborted, private schooling, free-market based income, etc) to the black community.
Understand that aint likely to happen, but I see the irony that the author is trying to get across