Black people are continually sucked into cycles of violence and destroyed by economic policy because we see their plight as a problem to be solved by making THEM more like US, rich white people, not people sorely affected by negative attitudes stemming from bad policy.
Your words pretty clearly portray poor black people as weak and unable to make their own decisions and underprivileged is a term that robs them of their power. They haven't not been granted the decency afforded to rich whites, they have been actively persecuted and their identity destroyed.
The implications of poverty are being on the losing end of what was a genocide stemming from slavery and is now an absurd treatment of people who have been forced into ghettos with no way out. It's a crime, not a shame. Middle class whites don't know how to deal with sudden millions, but the college system isn't stacked against them. Therefore, it is racist.
Those are issues, but they stem from a larger issue of racial persecution, subconscious and conscious hiring practices, inadequate political representation due to suppression of voting rights, imprisonment not based on likelihood of crime but race and increased crime due to poverty from the imprisonment and a plethora of other sources. It's a cycle of violence we cannot solve by teaching poor, impoverished, unfortunate ghetto street negro souls how to be good, upstanding people with an understanding of the white-biased American capital system that oppresses them.
The lack of progress comes from our hatreds, our crimes. It comes from poor policy resulting from old white fucks voting and old white fucks deciding that basketball players have to go to college first and that black people don't get to vote and that they are going to be beaten and killed and persecuted and thrown in jail to work for the white man. It comes from the idea that they are victims of misfortune and poverty, not the losers of a war that WE, white people, won and a genocide that WE, white people perpetrated. We need to redefine we so we stop "solving" the idea of being black as being poor and "ghetto" and unfortunate. We need to toss aside the idea that black people need to be dealt with in a manner that treats them as a problem to be made more white. That the "pragmatic" approach is to engineer them to white society instead of making normal the idea of being different, being black, and decide that it is not different but us.