lol. I see. Our families were kept intact, you say? Perhaps you should read up on the African slave trade. Families were definitely NOT kept intact.
A "different kind of slavery?" You mean the kind where we weren't really slaves? The only difference is that we fought the slave masters, and you didn't.
I was raised poorer than any American, black or otherwise, will ever be. Try a dirt floored bamboo hut with a thatch roof and 14 of us sleeping head to toe on the floor and get back to me.
You neither had to deal with a failed Reconstruction, nor racial "cleansings," where you lost land at the hands of whites and no real Jim Crow. Unless you're 106 years old.
You make excuses for others' success, and blame it on everything BUT your own failure, while at the same time bragging that you, yourself, are successful. So it CAN'T be for all the reasons you named, or any other black American could do the same. Unless you're blaming their lack of success on not having any good luck, good mentors, or great parents. No other good mentors or great parents available in your culture?
Still, it's a contradiction, buddy.