The war on drugs/minorities was a big part of that. You see felons can't vote or legally own guns so cops are always trying to pin felonies on black and brown.

it bears repeating that he went out looking for a kind of love that he wasn't getting at home. Not blaming all men because all men have it rough, but this is what happens to boys raised by women: they learn a twisted sense of pride/respect- it doesn't come from within, for them.

You're absolutely right. They knew what they were doing when they socially engineered the black community and alienated black men. But when you study it and study how black women have always been quick to throw black men under the bus for a come up, I blame them just as much as the system. I've had my eyes opened so much over the past decade as to how much black women been complicit in the destruction of the black community and black men.