Hate to break it to y'all, but the article you're praising was written for an anti-Black, anti-Islamic, anti-minority website run by a right-winged Jew named David Horowitz.
See for yourself:
FrontPage Magazine
The only two I slightly agree with are #1 and #5.
Sure the lack of opportunity is killing, not only poor Blacks, but the entire lower class as America continues to prove how little it believes in its "equal opportunities/Anyone can make it if they work hard" pipe dream by outsourcing jobs and not providing any realistic way to climb the economic ladder. But that epidemic isn't attributable to "liberal mayors", and neither is the crime problem cited in the article. Drug related crime isn't typical of Black communities alone, it is a national problem that needs to be addressed. You have Mexican drug dealers murdering each other in Los Angeles, Cuban drug dealers murdering each other in Miami, and Black drug dealers murdering each other in Baltimore, why are Blacks singled out?
As for the educational system - I agree that the educational system is horribly broken, but the problem lies deeper. Being educated in the American system does not secure success and it only reinforces the false beliefs we're being fed as Black people. Black children are being made to believe that their people made no advances prior to the slave trade. Formal education is designed to crush the hearts of many of the future intellectuals who would be more than willing to put paid to the current system. And what motivates the poor child is void in the classroom.
Scholars on the subject of education, already know that what is most important for a child's, or young adult's, development is the social circumstances outside of school. This includes the homelife. It includes the life that the children and adolescents see transpiring around them on the streets. The learning really takes place in the school yard, rather than in the classroom.
None of my words are to refute that Blacks are underachieving. But we must look at all the reasons why they are not living up to their potential. It's easy to throw the blame upon those who are being oppressed and claim that Blacks are "anti-intellectual". Blacks most definitely should strive to be educated. But then we need to analyze what education actually is.
And how can "Jaboom" say that this garbage article is necessary to the upliftment of out people? The words you read in this article can be heard in any area that Blacks congregate, it's nothing new. It's fine to say to the Black guy: get an education, take care of your kids, stop sellin' on the corner, get a job; but if society makes is extremely difficult to do any of those things, who is to blame?
Couple that with the fact that the negatives of Black men are hunted out and publicized at every opportunity, and we have the manufacture of inferiority complexes. The hardest way to make something believe something is to prove it. The easiest way, as the media and television know so well, is to simply repeat the unprovable at every opportunity. The average person is influenceable and buys the garbage the media and television are selling.
Fortunately, some of us are raised to be more enlightened.