The problem is no one wants to deal with these kids. Their future is bleak. When people try to help them they get attacked.

Spending money on the problem won't fix anything. What needs to happen is to change the toxic culture but that is only going to happen when black people help each other.

I've known many upper class and middle class black folks who donate 0% of their time helping poor black kids. When I used to volunteer to help poor black kids, all the volunteers were white or Asian.

Black politicians promise stuff but don't deliver. Once upon a time the black church did a lot of the heavy lifting and I have friends who grew up poor and black, but thanks to strong church ties, they stayed out of trouble and went on to get out of poverty.

But the system does not elevate blacks and honestly. only black people can really do it for themselves, I think, because only they know what it's like to grow up black in America.