Exactly. And it is the result of 'social engineering' by liberal dums. The socialists robbed the black community of their dignity and made them completely DEPENDENT upon 'government'. They took away the very foundation of the black family ... a strong father and marriage. The cycle of dependence, poverty, irresponsibility, hopelessness, entitlement, anger, etc. are the fruits of liberal government.
A 'hand up' NOT a 'hand out'. Before liberal democRATS experimented with their ill-designed pandering, the black family was strong and resilient, in spite of the very real discrimination that existed in the 60's. #PleaseStop'Helping'Us
There is truth in what you say. As a chaplain in the military for an entire career, I saw many successful black families also on a career track. And I saw their children being equally responsible in school and in the base community as with any other children of any race. My personal opinion about child behavior is that each one of us knew that any stepping out of line by our kids would get to our commanders, our commanders would call us in and demand accountability, and we would be required to go figure it out or get slammed. It was that way across the board, so chronically unruly kids in the community environment weren't tolerated, parents had to get involved, and those kids with that heavy-hand actually did pretty well.
My point in all this is that those black fathers had knowledge of something that was foreign to the rest of us. They would say, and I paraphrase, "We have to teach our sons 'how to be black' in this world." By that they meant that they had to get their kids in touch with what it meant to be a black outside of a military compound.
It was entirely a protective measure on their part. The kid had to know how to be black when among civilian blacks, or he could get hurt. He had to know how to be black among authorities or he could get hurt. He had to come to accept being suspected more quickly or he could get hurt. And he had to learn that he would be stopped more, questioned more, and disbelieved more. He had to know that to avoid being hurt.
This young man who was shot could have used a good dose of those lessons that career military black soldiers taught their male children. If he had been, he would never have let this progress the way it had.
So, missing not just a father, but missing a wise, involved, and functional father, bears partial responsibility for costing this young man his life.
As always, sometimes no matter how much you teach your kids to be smart, they become dumb. And some become stupid. And some become criminal.