I wish I had a good answer for you, but I don't. Your situation is one that no one - especially a veteran - should have to experience in what once known as the American dream. The root of the problem is not strictly racial although race has been injected into it. It has to do with personal responsibility which has been dying a slow death in this country ever since the birth of Johnson's Great Society. The tools to success are being denied entire generations now. In their place, they are given a enigmatic sense that they have lost out on something which drives them to anger. Any lessons extracted from trials and tribulations have been replaced with the ascent of victimhood as a justification criminal behavior.
Ever since government decided to replace the role of the father in those willing to accept it, the generations that follow have been sentenced to a mediocrity that kills off the soul. But then you know this already. You live in it.
I know what Christ would have me do in your situation. I can only pray that the Lord makes me willing. I also know that God would have me pray for those that persecute me. The rest is up to Him.