Sounds rather apocryphal. I would rather read the story that developed some years after MLK’s assassination. The near complete and utter destruction of the Black family.
Kicked off by LBJ.
I think it was a deadly combination of LBJs great society and liberal indifference to heroin. Then with heroin came cocaine and crack and meth and whatever the new destructo drug is now.
The best opportunity to remedy this was during the Reagan years when they started D.A.R.E and Just say no programs.
It would be interesting to compare the small % of blacks that vote conservative to the large % of blacks that vote progressive. I think somewhere in there lies an answer to the question hidden by political correctness.