>Hispanics being just as poor as us and being able to maintain
>families that are much more stable than ours?

It's not just about income. I look at my own family and community as well as the communities where I work as examples. I talk to the elders and this is how I know that there is a progression from where things were to how things have gotten to this current state.

"As long as blacks remained in “their place,” whites would have no reason to remind them of the place that blacks should occupy." - from http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/papers/hahner041101.html

You can't negate the economic, educational, occupational, and political structures that have existed in this country since the beginning to create a circle of self-fulfilling prophecies. My Latino friends tell me of a different experience than my own family and many others who have been here for generations, as a result of slavery. There is a psychological consequence of our experience in this country that cannot be compared to other groups who often came here by choice. Certain ideas and ways of thinking/living were passed down from generation to generation. We (Black folks) are still dealing with that.