Is meritocracy overrated?

So your position is that the government needs to figure out a way to change the black community, not that the government needs to figure out a way to change itself? Because that’s the read I’m getting. You’re not the first person I’ve encountered making such a claim, but I don’t think it’s nearly as enlightened as you might imagine.

It’s just one more way of saying “the problem is with the community at disadvantage: if they are disadvantaged, it’s because they are disadvantaging themselves.” It’s only slightly less disingenuous, to my view, than opining that their “culture” must value poverty.