I've been in neighborhoods like that when I worked construction, bottles being thrown at the truck as we drove by, guys rushing out and banging on the side of the truck, diving to the ground for cover behind stacks of lumber when gunfire rang out nearby, and I used to think mostly like you do but as I've grown older I've realized those neighborhoods and those attitudes didn't create themselves, that animus expressed toward us isn't a genetic trait. As I said before it's a product of centuries of systematic racism - slavery, Jim crow, segregation, lack of opportunity because so many people believe they're all bad, etc. - that has been expressed toward folks of color, those negative tendencies in that culture a byproduct, an expression of pent up generational anger that they've only recently been able to express, really only in my lifetime. In short, what goes around, comes around and if some of those folks express racism toward whites and frustration at their situation that results in broken homes and violence, well their culture endured that from whites pretty much forever. And while there is a large part of that group that is expressing that anger the general attitude is getting better as more opportunities appear, but it's still an uphill battle as people continue to say generalizations like, "Young black boys/men have poor impulse control and are prone to violence."

Walter Williams was just another right wing hack economist who was looking for a way to blame public assistance for the current cultural problems in the black community, and in the short term it has had a sometimes negative effect of giving fathers the ability to skip out, but the lack of responsibility and pride is what happens to a culture that has had little control over it's own affairs, been pushed around and kicked around, and now expressed in violent and unhealthy ways, something like an exaggerated version of a teenager cutting loose when they finally get away from the control of their parents. The civil rights movement started just a few years before I was born and given the length of time the black community has been kept down it's essentially in its adolescence so, yeah, there will be bumps in the road, but making sure children have food and homes is never wrong and many or most of those children are finding ways out of the hood, the hood that was created by racism toward their families for a very, very long time.

So save your Archie Bunker rationalizations, the notion that most blacks and most Jews are just genetically predisposed to being bad people, and try to understand that after all their communities have been through over centuries right up until now, it's no wonder some of them will see you and me as being genetically predisposed to being bad people when in the end we're all genetically the same and we need to continue working toward jettisoning our cultural animosity and appreciating each culture and each individual for who they are.