Aside from the language, it looks like you wouldn’t need to change that too much to make it sound a lot more progressive. Sure, people of color aren’t being kept as actual slaves anymore, but being stuck in communities with no real investment apart from welfare and no sense of purpose isn’t much of an improvement. Perhaps Americans in general should consider whether the things that they wring their hands over (family breakdown, criminality, lack of ambition) are more due to the toxic atmosphere that people have to live in and less to some weakness of character associated with their skin colour?
He may not have meant all of those things, but maybe people like Rand Paul were already looking for a way out if they never even attempted to claim that his words were taken out of context.
