Because the American police are a paramilitary organisation who involve themselves in frequent extrajudicial killings.
Whites have been selling drugs out of their homes long before the current generation. As far as if blacks will eventually quit selling on street corners and sell in private? Who knows. Selling in private is much better for society than selling in public; selling in public leads to drive-by shootings, fights, and countless other crimes that destroys neighborhoods, and innocent bystanders.
Actually you make a pretty good point! If they could make criminal activity look less attractive, that would do a lot! They can start by changing the culture that says “no snitchin” by using their cell phone to anonymously record criminal activity going on outside their homes and sending it to the police. When criminals become afraid to commit crime in public for fear of someone snitching behind closed doors, not only will that reduce crime, but it will attract more business into these already economically struggling neighborhoods creating more jobs, more opportunity, less poverty and safer streets!
I see you are not from America, so perhaps you don’t know the difference.
I never said there was no progress, but there should have been more progress. You are arguing as if the current middle class is a reflection of people working hard as opposed to people finding success in spite of racism. African Americans would have more wealth if not for the systemic and institutional impediments put in their way. There would be more home ownership if they actually received the same access to lending. They would have more wealth if they received the same access in employment. This does not mean that there was no progress, but there should be a lot more progress. The fact that African Americans lag behind is primarily because of the racism that still exists. As you pointed out, there were huge gains made and those gains were made when there were racist laws and practices standing in the way. Many of the racist laws of the past have been outlawed, but that doesn't mean that such laws and practices no longer exist today. They still do exist.
I'm not so sure SA's police carries the catchphrase "To protect and to serve" which is an American coined tagline.
If you're aware it exists as you claim you are then you're not aware as to the extent of it. It is not "way down the list of black problems", it is at the top of the list.
We white people all did and do. Here you are showing that your earlier claim that you're aware of it was just lip service because you just directly contradicted that. You said you're aware that it exists and now you claim it doesn't exist.
