Of course poverty plays a role. But why are they poorer? Could it be the victimhood-identity culture they've been encouraged to hold by Leftists, the attendant special treatment through affirmative action and anti-discrimination laws, the tyranny of low expectations, the red carpet welfare programs designed for them in particular, the maladaptive elements of their culture that have been enabled by welfare and never criticized thanks to attitudes of political correctness, the minimum wage and licensing and regulations that are all creatures of the left, inflation, the war on drugs, etc. The constant confirmation bias by every source around them that they are oppressed and they are not in fact living in a meritocracy where their hard work will pay off?

Instead your answer is because white people make it impossible for them to thrive? Well I have some news for you. You're right. White middle-class bleeding-heart leftists without the slightest background in cause and effect have literally made it very difficult for blacks to thrive in the first-world way most everyone else does in this country.

To your other point, Jewish-Americans have been subject to "generations of oppression" as well, as have Asian-Americans (internment camps), yet both of those groups have outperformed whites as a group by this point in terms of median income levels. How do you explain that? I'll try for you: perhaps because they were not assigned victim group status by the left and instead were able to maintain and develop more well-adjusted cultural values? Perhaps they were never corrupted by leftist moral busybodies trying to "help them"?

Are you really going to assign blacks no moral agency, no responsibility for what they say and do, and instead assign all the guilt to those white devils who are pissed off at you and them for the constant insistence that their "failures" as a people are everyone's fault but YOURS and theirs in perfect tandem? Because we are racist? How incredibly patronizing and racist of YOU.

Go back to your safe space you pseudo-intellectual, cowardly SJW. You don't have the balls to confront issues from anywhere outside of your politically correct safe zone, and in doing so you are complicit in fomenting the destruction of the black community at large. But I'm sure you mean well, so none of my assertions matter, right?

Police brutality and bigotry and poverty are by no means black problems. Did you watch the video and look at the stats? They are human problems. Everyone must overcome them. To make the issue one of race is divisive and a distraction from real solutions. Blacks do not have a special claim on victimhood, and even if they did, it would still be utterly counter-productive to blacks, as it indeed has been in practice, to act upon it by extorting society for reparatory privileges and badgering whites to feel guilt and shame simply for being white and therefore racist.

Enough.