Auburn Avenue didn't become an impoverished ghetto because of the decline of segregation, but because of the advent of the ever-expanding social welfare program initiated by LBJ's "War on Poverty". Many inner city blacks have been robbed of any sense of personal responsibility and social worth.
Really? They've been robbed? by whom?
All the excuses in the world,e.g., robbed of personal responsibility, driven into welfare, ain't got no role models, do not absolve the current generation from their responsibility to themselves.
Waves of immigrants have shown themselves able to pull themselves up by the bootstraps within one generation. Blacks themselves, many of them, have shown themselves capable of pulling themselves out of poverty.The excuse of 'being robbed' is tiresome and irrelevant.