Obama's Morehouse Exposition Speech

Ok so I've read the speech, now that I've heard the context, I think I'm still unchanged.. In fact as Obama was attempting to give the interpretation of "Excuses are tools of the....." I think that he failed to mention the disparate conditions which make the odds so insurmountable for African American men.  Its as though he completely forgot the "war on crime" and drug legislation that  contributed to countless African American men who comprise the prison industrial complex.  In reading this, with a critical gaze, it appears as though he is anti affirmative action and to be quite honest, oblivious to the class disparity which exists in our country.  I'm curious to know if there was an African American speech writer here because as he mentions Washington and DuBois, they clashed, furiously.  In fact Washington was known as the "The Great Accommodationist" who didn't challenge White Oppression..... Gotta give the president a thumbs down on his Black Experience graduation speech.  C- at best, but of course, I'm using my affirmative action curve.      
"I understand there’s a common fraternity creed here at Morehouse: “Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness.” Well, we’ve got no time for excuses. Not because the bitter legacy of slavery and segregation have vanished entirely; they have not. Not because racism and discrimination no longer exist; we know those are still out there. It’s just that in today’s hyperconnected, hypercompetitive world, with millions of young people from China and India and Brazil — many of whom started with a whole lot less than all of you did — all of them entering the global workforce alongside you, nobody is going to give you anything that you have not earned. (Applause.)
Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination. And moreover, you have to remember that whatever you’ve gone through, it pales in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured — and they overcame them. And if they overcame them, you can overcome them, too. (Applause.)
You now hail from a lineage and legacy of immeasurably strong men — men who bore tremendous burdens and still laid the stones for the path on which we now walk. You wear the mantle of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, and Ralph Bunche and Langston Hughes, and George Washington Carver and Ralph Abernathy and Thurgood Marshall, and, yes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. These men were many things to many people. And they knew full well the role that racism played in their lives. But when it came to their own accomplishments and sense of purpose, they had no time for excuses."