forget about racism, poverty and other minor problems i'd say the biggest problem preventing black folks from making any progress is the fact that 70+% of children are born to single parent households
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jul/29/don-lemon/cnns-don-lemon-says-more-72-percent-african-americ/Quote
Lemon said that "more than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock." Federal data confirms that 73 percent of African-American births in 2010 were out of wedlock. Estimates for the percentage of African-American children growing up in single-parent households are slightly lower, at 67 percent. Finally, black children counted in these statistics may have contact outside the household with their biological father. But Lemon's statistic was accurate, and we rate his statement True.
how did this come about in the first place? who told these women that they can be a strong independent black women who don't need no man to raise a child?
deadbeat dads who have no job and never come home are certainly a problem but the women ultimately hold the key to whether or not they have children and they choose to raise children with no father around - this is the biggest problem facing the black community today
naturally those kids that grow up in fatherless homes turn out to be thugs becoming another crime statistic or worse, they become part of the black lives matter movement