I agree with Jesse Jackson for once. Man, the world must be due to spin off its axis soon too....
My opinion on the issue (for what it is worth which is about zero) is along the lines of Bill Cosby's. I think that the black community as a whole should make a point of divesting themselves from the entire slavery/discrimination/racism culture as a whole. Yes, black people in this country have gotten a bad deal. Yes, in some cases they still get bad deals. Yes, they start life with a strike against them. This is all true. However, until young black people in this country decide to stop playing the victim card as an excuse for their failures and just press forward, they will perpetuate some of the stereotypes.
Perhaps my words are coming out wrong, to be honest I'm having trouble putting my thoughts down in words here. Basically it's the old "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" idea. If I were a young black man in this country I think the best way to give the big middle finger to the power establishment in this country would be to nut up and be successful. I think that it would take all my energy to do that, and making excuses for my failures before I even start seems counterproductive. I think that the younger generation today starts out with a big chip on their shoulder, sometimes before anything has even happened to them.
At some point, the black community is going to have to stop asking for reparations and making excuses based on what happened to their grandparents or great-grandparents and move on.
Perhaps that time is now.