Originally Posted by Apprehended

Unlike every other culture, they have never been taught by the leaders that they respect how to assimilate in general culture. Instead, the vast majority of them listen to the likes of Jackson and Sharpton whose agenda is to divide for the sake of their own purse.

A few black leaders have tried to gain a respectable voice among them to help navigate the blacks into general assimilation, such as Mr. Cosby, but have been largely ballyhooed as an Uncle Tom. Persons such as Sharpton and Jackson have done their own race an enormous discredit from which it will take many decades to recover and possibly never will if blacks continue attributing credit and respect to such voices.