I'm going to take issue with the term "black community". I don't think of these ghetto rats as representative of black people - the black people I know value education, responsibility, and good citizenship. These ghetto crackheads could just as easily be white - and many of them *are* white. They may use race as an excuse, but everyone regardless of race has some bull#### excuse as to why they "can't". Join the club, crackheads.
What's interesting is that we, as a society, have bought into that excuse. "Oh, well, you're black. We don't expect any better from you, so here...here's some stuff that you're too dumb to get on your own." What's more, other black people buy into it!!! That's the part that stuns me. I understand the NAACP pushing this agenda - they're in the rabble rousing moneymaking business, not the fix a problem business. It's when I hear some middle- to upperclass black person blaming race for these people's lack of achievement that I rock back.
"Black people cannot be successful in this country," says our black President. Wait, what?
"White people are all racists who want to put blacks in slavery," says the multibillionaire rap star. Huh?
If anything, it's black people trying to keep a brothah down, not white people. So now I've gone full circle, and you're right - our society is trying to fight against the social construct of the black community.
Sometimes I just need to work it through for myself.