Black Americans survived slavery and Jim Crow because their communities were held together by the strongest, most ethical, religious and decent people within their communities. If they hadn't had that type of leadership they wouldn't have survived slavery and Jim Crow with their families intact. (Black successful marriage rate was HIGHER for blacks than for whites in the 1940's)
In the 60’s white liberal ‘elites’ upended everything that made the black community strong and replaced it with grievance, pity parties, and poverty pimps.
I always hang my head because it was MY generation that did that.