White Oppression or Black Responsibility?

Two black views on the social problems of the Black ghettos:

1.  "It's on us. It's our responsibility."  Referring to black-on black crimes, family dysfunction, etc.

2.  Harvard professor and black pastor, Peter J. Gomes:  "money, programs, and advocacy alone will not solve the problems of the black underclass. . . . despair as the root and fundamental disease; despair, the loss of hope, the loss of any sense of purpose, or worth, or direction, or place."  Or meaning.

My comments:  This is a description of not only the black underclass, but also Appalachian whites (read Hillbilly Elegy) and Indian reservations, and Latino barrios.  The cause is not individual character flaw, nor cultural inferiority; instead it is enormous oppression damage.  Oppression is "the root and fundamental disease."  Oppression causes trauma and despair; trauma causes individual, family, community and cultural PTSD; PTSD and the resulting dysfunction creates the black urban underclass.

"It's on us. It's our responsibility."  This is what American white Christians should be saying as they repent and engage in restitution and then became active and lifelong partners in the rebuilding of black underclass communities.  The best partners will relocate in those communities.