I'm not aware that anyone is ignoring that fact, and I was in no way contradicting it. I was merely pointing out that it is not the spiritual deficits of the poor, and particularly Black Americans,  that create and perpetuate the larger conditions in which they find themselves. 

There's a rather helpful book out, "White Rage," by Carol Anderson, which sketches the legal and social frameworks that the larger society has imposed upon Black Americans since the end of the Civil War to the present. It is a well sourced and documented history of what has gone on between the ears of those who have had the power to determine matters pertaining to employment, housing, and education, for the past 150 years.

I suggest that it is outside the ghetto walls that studying gospels might have practical use because it is outside the ghetto walls that we find the generality of institutions and people who have condoned, perpetuated, and profited by these injustices.