Wise comment.
Unfortunately, accepting personal responsibility is a painful but absolutely necessary and non-negotiable first step in solving one's problems and developing real character. There seems to be a wholesale failure in the leadership of the black community to appreciate that fact.
In fact, said leaders usually denigrate those who do assume mature responsibility as traitors to their race.
And as a result...we have an entire segment of our population which has not, will not, indeed, cannot assimilate into our culture as mature citizens.
And now, the President of the United States is fanning the flames of revolution by this self-segregated population.
It's not what MLK wanted. The autobiography of Booker T. Washington was one of the most inspiring books I read in my youth for guidance on how to overcome disadvantage and live a useful life, along with Ben Franklin's autobio. Such men today, like Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams, are ignored. It is tragic.
My life was saved by a black child when I was four years old or so and would have drowned, had he not pulled me out. My parents' curt dismissal of him was a moment of pure shame. I will not give up trying, but I am deeply, deeply saddened by the hostility and ingratitude of the "urban youth" and hip-hop culture.