Even with black democrats in political positions, our cities/ ppl in those cities still aren’t really thriving —Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore. “one-third of the top 100 U.S. cities are now governed by African American mayors” but our test scores, wealth, health hasn’t improved as stated by reports and Dr. Claude Anderson. Yes, there are a few people doing well but the overall majority aren’t… little progress is being made… something isn’t working.
I’ll try to find the clip of a brotha talkin bout how our broken families are some of our biggest issues especially for wealth.
Blaming Black mayors or Black leadership for the state of cities is lazy and ignores the bigger picture. You can't ignore how they've been gutted by decades and decades of systemic racism, white flight, economic disinvestment, and restrictive Federal policies. It's like with crime, you can't expect these issues to be fixed without addressing the root problems that caused this.
The struggles that many Black families face are the result of those same systemic barriers, not the root cause. Broken families didn't create redlining. They didn't create mass incarceration. They didn't create discriminatory hiring practices. They didn't create underfunded schools. They didn't create any of the root causes. Those are the policies that broke the families in the first place. It's not Black leadership or Black families that aren't working, at least in the way you believe, it's a system that has always been stacked against us. And without meaningful change, these issues will always persist.
That's not to say that personal and collective accountability isn't important. It is. There are things that we can do to better equip ourselves to challenge it more effectively and succeed despite it, but we can't do that by ignoring reality.