I think that if the black community, led by the NAACP, would focus on taking advantage of the many opportunities they are provided to better themselves and spend less time whining about reparations and asking for free handouts, then maybe they would get a leg up. None of these people, or their parents, or even their grandparents, were personally affected by slavery. Many caucasion and Asian people have ancestors that were affected by great prejudices and tragedies - Irish, Chinese, and especially the Jewish community. Yet we don't see modern Jews using the Holocaust, a more recent event, as an excuse for their own laziness. The black community needs to stop teaching their children to be "fighters" and teach them to get off their butts, get off welfare and drugs, and make something of themselves.