All you gotta do is read a history book. There was a time where education was the ONLY thing black people cared about. We pushed education above everything else in this country, and we still had many of the same problems we have today.
Whether it's rap music, the lack of focus on education, the lack of focus on technology, single parent homes, feminism, out of wedlock child birth, and the vast majority of the issues brought in this thread. Go back about 60-70 years and none of those issues existed and we still have many of the same problems that we are facing today. The problem is living in a country where white people are in control. We don't want to believe or accept it but it's the honest truth.
Black people in this country are an oppressed group. The same way black people in South Africa were oppressed, the same way Palestinians in Israel are oppressed, the same way the Falashas in Ethiopia were oppressed. Until we remove ourselves from this oppression, our condition will never change.