When schools were forcibly integrated, agitation was at its peak. The young were told by the agitators to violently oppose perceived injustice, and those youth quickly discovered that White school administrators were wont to discipline them for fear of being sued for "discrimination".
It didn't take long for white kids to decide "we have equal rights, too" and discipline broke down, and with it any semblance of meaningful education.
Some schools avoided that melee by gerrymandering districts; some by refusing to bus their children (School Buses were being burned in Boston by protestors who did not want their children sent to school with "those people" fully 7 years after MD schools had been integrated, for instance), or simple demographics, but many did not.
Those which did not commonly suffered breakdowns in discipline, and with that, loss of educational opportunity--the same educational opportunity which was supposed to be enhanced by integration.
I could go on about that, but it was an education which was seen as the ticket out of poverty for rural blacks, either that or a military career, and those goals were replaced by the indoctrination and frustration the Communist Left so carefully planted via enlightenment programs, affirmative action, the glorification of drug use (money to be made selling that sh*t to white hippies)--with extensive collateral damage in the black community.
"Rap" hasn't helped--blacks who used to sing now chant litanies about how they are the lowest of their race, their women are classless "hos", and glorifying violence as the sole form of meaningful conflict resolution.
Some self-deprecation may be fine, but in the rural environs of my youth "Nigger" and "Cracker" were terms for the races' respective lowest on the totem pole, only demeaned further by the addition of expletives.
That anyone would refer to themselves, their peers, and their people by the most demeaning of Jim Crow era terms is unfathomable, and bespeaks a lack of respect for self and community. (How do you disrespect someone who refers to themselves as the dregs of their society?)
Referring to women as 'hos' and "bitches" is similarly demeaning. (Would they refer to their mothers thus? ...their Grandmothers? ...to their faces?? Perhaps, but if so that is just a peek at how low self-expectations have fallen.)
If the Black community, for that matter, any community, wants to improve its lot, then ditch the "bitch/ho/nigga" crap and act respectable.
Is that "acting white"? Ask Oprah, ask Bill Cosby. No Black head of state in the world would act that way--and there are some, who when they speak English, do so impeccably, and expect the respect due their station.
Black women: The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. It doesn't matter what color that hand is. You are the first line in demanding respect, not just for yourselves, but of and for your children. Don't let anyone refer to your babies as "nigga", and don't let them refer to themselves that way. You have spent years trying to eliminate such deprecation from the vocabulary of others, so why on Earth would you let anyone call your children by a name once reserved for your cultural trash.
Decide where you want to be--on the 'welfare plantation', or standing on your own two feet, with a man at your side--and you can demand his fealty--if you all do.
Look at your children. If you truly want better for them, raise the bar.
(Whites need to wake up to the whole "cracker" thing, too. The word was reserved for those of low education, morals, and social station, and while we may laugh at "you might be a redneck...", "Cracker" was far lower on the totem pole. At least "trailer trash" had a trailer to call their own.)
If you want peace and prosperity you can have that, but it will take time and work to reverse the crap that has been foisted on you by the same liberals who claimed they were helping. They were not helping, although they made it sound nice.
They broke down your families, they stole your self-respect, they told your children drugs were 'cool', they claimed they were educating them while they passed them through high school unable to read, and they blamed anyone and everyone else for the problems they helped create.
It isn't "acting white" to want success, everyone wants that.
It isn't "acting white" to want a stable family.
It isn't "acting white" to excel at something like science (George Washington Carver), medicine (Dr. Charles Drew), a trade (Eugene Siladay), or the classical arts (Raven Wilkinson/Lauren Anderson). You don't need some 'special' program to succeed (how demeaning!), just raise your expectations of yourselves, your children, your men, your community.
It is going to take work, and time--this mess was not made overnight. It has taken over 50 years of effort for the Communists and others to derail the progress Black people had made in America. It may even take longer to reverse the damage, but the solution lies with you, and no one else can do this for you.
Bingo.