[Spok]

To be fair, he’s grown up in a culture where all that ails black people is directly attributed to slavery or other white malfeasance; he is a product of his environment. In the circle he always lived in, individual failure/responsibility was not in the vernacular.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

To paraphrase Pastor C.L. Bryant (producer of Runaway Slave)...

"when you blame others (particularly of racism), you give away your power (to grow, to change, to improve, to fix things)"

[calex59]

To be fair, he’s grown up in a culture where all that ails black people is directly attributed to slavery or other white malfeasance; he is a product of his environment. In the circle he always lived in, individual failure/responsibility was not in the vernacular.

BS, he may be a product of his environment but it is he environment of Islam not of a black American. You have your head up your a**!.

[Ditter]

He didn't grow up in a black culture, he was raised by white communist and spent a few years in Indonesia. He MARRIED into black culture, he learned all the race cr*p in Chicago from MO.