Very true, but again, why did they fall for it? Blacks have been the victims of redlining long before the Civil Rights movement, but middle class black communities thrived until when? 1965, when the Civil Rights Act was signed. This liberal idea that black people needed help (even though more black families had two parents in the home than white families), and it evolved into an excuse to fail, imo.

Add to it the War on Drugs, which has impacted these communities more so than any other, and yeah, I agree, the deck was stacked. That has changed. What new policies have done that damage? It's been more than half a century and things have gotten worse not better despite all the liberal policies and welfare. When do these communities stop killing themselves? Some of, if not all of, the answer needs to come from those communities.

Finally, I just saw this post (tik tok), where someone was using Baltimore as an example of how the systemic racism argument is no longer valid. Freddie Grey happened in a Black city, with a black city council, mayer, police chief, and 3/6 of the officers involved were black. This woman argued that the only cause of the problems in Baltimore is still white supremacy and systemic racism. When does that bullshit wear out? When can we just get over slavery?