Returning our discussion to present-day circumstances, in our early 21st century contemporary era it has become indisputably clear that the multi-layered social crises plaguing the African-American lower-class sector have impacted the affairs of the NAACP in unique ways. In fact, these crises impact the affairs of Black leadership in general. After all, the social crises plaguing lower-class African-Americans are systemically and culturally tenacious crises.

Among them are the following:

• joblessness crisis
• family breakdown crisis
• school dropout crisis
• unwed motherhood/fatherhood crisis (over 60% of Black children are born to single parents!)
• macho-male violence/homicide crisis
• Hip-Hop influenced macho-male “gansta-culture” crisis
• and, last but not least, the high incarceration rate crisis