I appreciate your article. As a black man, who owns his own business and never sold or used crack I have escaped many of the stereotypical problems black people face that you mentioned. I love America, the people, and the constitution. The spirit behind the truth of divine human rights is keeping us from complete global tyranny. But it didn't start that way, it was a struggle. Many good black, white and other people fought and died so that all could be more free. The evil powers of this world that feed off of hate and benefit from our enslavement needs us divided. You play into their hands when you get emotional and denigrate a whole community behind a stupid blog from a guy on the internet. You may not be racist but you sound like it when you harshly criticize another community without considering factors like the drug war, redlining, lynching, segregation, slavery, and hundreds of years of all out terrorism on a group of people. Don't take our current situation out of context of history, that would be ignorance. Trust me there are plenty of black Americans doing well, are drug free, and do great things for our country everyday, and we don't use hardships as an excuse to not do what's right. Don't let the mainstream media fool you, they don't speak for all of us, we don't own the tv stations, and we don't set the agenda. They are owned by international corporations and banks, and they have their puppets. But I get it, you don't want to be blamed for stuff other people did, and you shouldn't. We all should be focusing on what we can agree on and work towards that, but unfortunately many people are just acting out on their programming and brainwashing. Try not to take anything personally, be humble and use empathy to try to understand things from other people's perspective. That is what I try to do and it makes for a much more peaceful existence and it's the only way we can come together and insure freedom for ourselves and future generations. Peace.