“the mayor is Black, the Chief of Police is Black and about half the police force (including some of those charged with Freddie Gray’s death) are Black. All this under a twice-elected Black President. ”

Yup.

and increasingly, computers and machines are making decision on black people.

Think about the captcha code I had to understand and use to post this reply?

No matter how many distinct “classes” you divide black people into; the architecture is orchestrated by a parasite, rent seeking class that maintains and feeds off the division.
Hierarchy is a normal part of human culture and will self correct and present organically if allowed; but what you have in these post industrial, northern, urban decaying, liberal cities like Baltimore is completely artificial and ultimately unsustainable.
In the U.S there is big money to be made “managing” black people; and not just the so called “under class”; although thats where the techniques and money is most visible. Producing and getting middle and upper class black people into the consumer and debt based life style is an even larger often undetected component.

The northern liberal parasite class started as a WASP/Jewish alliance and though it may have had noble beginnings; the phenomenon of compound interest has completely taken over all motive and the cart now drives the horse.

The beast has truly grown larger than its master and they are now forced to keep feeding it in order to keep it from eating them.

“Black Lives Matter” is a mass temper tantrum for people angry at their fathers. Its funded and organized by that parasite class I mentioned; and will be wielded by them like a club to support their rent seeking, extortion and debt farming activities…
The blacks will receive some tokens and crumbs… but the main benefit is “attention” from white people. They should rename it “Black Lives Matter To White People” because thats what they’re after. They didn’t get it from their fathers so now they are gonna “act out” until they get it from white people.

Its unfortunate because such an organization sucks time and energy from black people that would be better spent on smaller, local economic and educational activities designed to ween them off the rent seeking/debt farming plantation.
Black people need to prepare NOW for the day when white people can no longer throw money and benefits at them to shut them up; because its coming.
Complaining about racism is not the same as coming up with INDIVIDUAL compensatory BEHAVIORS and PRACTICING them. Why do black people seem unable and/or unwilling to take such a simple step?

It is my opinion black people can’t tell their children the truth about racism without in some measure also discrediting themselves as a “parent” in the process. For example, when it comes to black criminals and crime; the punishment is NOT jail, or prison; its that criminal record, because it never goes away. In these all black schools the male children should be given this “talk” the same way the girls are pulled out of class, sent to the auditorium and given the “talk” about sexual harassment, pregnancy… in 6th grade.

“In it, he makes the case that as an unintended consequence of the Civil Rights Era, Black America has actually splintered or broken apart into what he argues are four distinct “mini-Black Americas”
I submit to you the concept of “Black America” never exist in the first place; so how could it splinter or break apart?
Inmates in a prison are not a community; neither are black people. Whores in a whore house are not a community and neither are dogs in a kennel.

If a community is not voluntary, does it really qualify as a community?
What is more valuable than a voluntary agreement?