I have friend just now completing his masters and soon he too will be ministering to the Black Community.
It was interesting last night (2-16-2015) to listen to him describe the Libraries at both Shaw and Duke University. At Shaw, folks are typically older family men. They bring food to library, talk loud and not much in the way of studying is performed; the library has little that can be researched but school bookstore is a gold mine for Shaw as the price of books is 110% the cost at Duke and most can be bought on Amazon.com for $10 rather than $100....
At the Duke Univ Divinity School, the library is larger than three of Shaw University's buildings put together. It has thousands of texts available, it is quiet and the staff will hunt you down to give you answers to questions. The bus from Shaw to Duke (110 miles) is free for students. Duke is where he went to research frequently and study in a quiet environment free from the tapping of his native community.
From listening to my friend, the Black Community is different. They have never learned to be quiet in class or actually put much effort into studies. His classmates, again, were mostly older men who had families or churches and for the most part just came to class to graduate, rather perform actual learning.
What I take from his verbalization of his graduate studies at Shaw University is that the Black Community is different and needs to be kept different from what America is in the middle. Without "Ministering to the Black Community" the Black Community just might not be so segregated and militant towards the rest of American society.
In that community, being a pastor is considered the “gold ring” on the ride of life. They generally make more money and they get the women. People have low expectations of pastors and generally see them as “getting over” whereas they have a lot of gravitas from normally religion-hating liberals. They always have a non-profit skimming money from the government or big business. If you see “Justice” or “Hunger” in a non-profit name, there’s a pastor running it.