The opiod problem was not the fault of the African American community, and dozens of similar crimes committed against them across the timeline of their existence on the American continent are not their fault either.

There have been times in the history of the world when a people have been victimised by another, but they have strove with all their might against it, have never stopped fighting for their freedom and lives as long as they lived.

And sometimes it isn’t enough. Sometimes the odds against you are too great, the enemy too powerful. The point I was trying to make is that an attitude of personal agency and personal responsibility and mastery over their own fate, is the only way to carve out a better world.

The globalisation, and other things you say are responsible for the decline of middle America are not the fault of those who live there. And yet an attitude that therefore someone else should be ultimately responsible for improving their lives would be a death knell to their hopes for a better world. There is nothing wrong with pointing out historical or present day injustice, in explaining how a people have been given a raw deal, and a weak hand in life. But that explanation must always end in a commitment of self improvement, and the ability within the hearts of the people to manifest their future through their actions.