Somebody in the ghetto has just as many opportunities to leave their area and better themselves.
It's time to quit making excuses for them and demand accountability.
Demand accountability? In what way? And how is that going to help them in the long run?
I suppose whatever we do is better than the status quo, i.e. just chill and do nothing.
PS: One of the main things you seem to be missing, is the MASSIVE difference in family-cohesion, and support structures between life on the farm, and life in the ghetto. Both my parents grew up on the farm, I've been in Europe for 2-3 month stints where we would help my family farm. The support structure that's there is just completely different.
We don't have that many black people, or 'ghettos' in Edmonton, but we have loads of Native reserves interspersed all across the province, and country in general.
It's easy to rag on their ethnicity, call them selfish, inept, lazy, and short-sighted-- but it is much harder to be able to admit that the embarrassing history of Canadian attempts at Native American assimilation (Residential schools, etc.) has played a massive role in having mammoth negative impacts on not only one generation, but every subsequent generation who has had to deal with father figures resorting to various ends to cope with being raped at a young age, being separated from families-- or even have their affected fathers commit suicide, or have them resort to beating his children, resorting to alcoholism and so on. Father leaves, mother is busy trying to make a living-- this is where society should try to step in, and try and help kids not fall through the cracks. What ends up happening is that we don't, and some drug-dealer gang member will do so instead.