[mrustow]

"Millions of black adults," which includes parents and non-parents alike. Such a pedantic man as yourself has no excuse for such sloppiness.

[demosthenes the elder]

wow, I am amazed you are hunting this down to the last split hair of diction with me, and yet you do not question the author's unsubstantiated claims of "fact" indicting millions of people of criminal conspiracy.
The exact phrase was "parents and authority figures" - typically such men as preachers and politicians. Throw in the Jesse-wannabes and Jackson himself as an extra class of "authority" figure. Who else is there? Who else is anywhere near as numerous as the parents themselves. Do you deny that this is the main implication of the author's words?