There are plenty of black people raised in middle class homes that go on to become educated professionals, but nobody wants to talk about them.
Wealthy rappers or athletes that grew up in the ghetto? Sure, they end up being as fucked up as anyone else from the ghetto. I've never argued that the culture there isn't the worst, and that people that come out of that culture aren't the worst.
My argument has consistently been that this attitude of well, black people need to just get their shit together and fix it is bullshit. They can't fix it, they are completely incapable of fixing it. Their neighborhoods have been completely gutted. Yes, they have a degree of personal accountability in that, but generations of systemic racism had a hell of a lot to do with it to.
To deny that you have to be completely ignorant of America history. Everyone says well that's an excuse, that stuff happened awhile ago. They've had all this time to completely reverse the problem on their own. Why would they be able to do that? They didn't fuck up the community on their own.
NOBODY is blaming anyone RIGHT NOW for racism of the past, but that shit happened and it fucked up black communities. They weren't always crime ridden, with broken families, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, absent fathers etc. It took a long time and outside effort for them to get that way, it's going to take a long time and outside effort to fix it. And yes, people in those communities will have to WANT things to change. Nobody is denying that.