Look, me, my father in law, and Barack Obama are all “black”, and my father in law’s principal reason for disowning me is that I am a traitor to the black race/cause, etc. by not supporting him. If I don’t directly address the ways in which my thinking grows out of a concern for black people then I have no hope of persuading him of anything. In truth, I believe that getting rid of Barack Obama would’ve been of benefit to all people, not just blacks, but most of all blacks, since blacks have done relatively the worst under his leadership.
Blacks as a group in America are materially worse off than average by almost every measure. I don’t think you have to be racialist in order to be particularly concerned about helping them to improve their situation.
But why is this? The root cause of the problem is the breakdown of the black family. When the great majority of black children are born to single mothers, the kids' chances of being poor and ending up in prison greatly increase.
"I don’t think you have to be racialist in order to be particularly concerned about helping them to improve their situation."
How do you help people who apparently aren't willing to help themselves? Since the Great Society, we've spent $17 trillion on social programs. What good has it done? To rectify the situation blacks find themselves in, they need to decide they are going to wait until marriage to have children, and black men need to stick around to be fathers to those children. Returning to the pre-Great Society morality, along with getting off the government teat, is absolutely necessary if black people wish to succeed. Until then, with all respect to you, I'm tired of being told the responsibility to help blacks lies with me (or anyone, except themselves).