Can government solve these 'black' problems or do blacks have some responsibility to solve their own problems?

My primary experience with blacks has been in the military.  Black Sergeants, black officers, black troops.  Guess what, in that environment, basically what tries to be a meritocracy, blacks succeed or fail based primarily on their own personal hard work and efforts.   Sometimes there is 'affirmative action' or favoritism by black mentors, but most of ones I saw had too much personal pride to want something that they hadn't actually earned.

The other soldiers, sergeants ad officers are more likely to enforce the standards which apply to everyone to their black peers.  The 'government' sets the standards and the blacks have no more difficulty meeting them than any other group.

If we compare that to civilian society that I can see, it appears that the motivated ones went into the military and the the rest went into the gangs or the prison population.