Liberalism not slavery is the problem.

[77cowboy]

LBJ doomed the black culture with his misguided liberal attempt at "helping". Nobody is helped long term by free stuff and giveaways which just leads to generational poverty and off the chart crime. Anyone who has been fortunate enough to do a lot of charity knows how it too often ends...with resentment and the expectation of more and more. I've seen it up close and personal more than I care to remember. People need the incentive to sharpen their skills and be productive. Tough love, if you will. Not sit around whining with their hand out screaming racism as the reason they are where they are.

As the famous Earl Nightingale once said: "Broke is a temporary situation. Poverty is a state of mind."

Data Show That Poverty in the U.S. Was Plummeting—Until Lyndon Johnson Declared War On It | Daniel J. Mitchell

The poverty rate was consistently declining for twenty years—until 1966, when President Johnson decided to intervene.

fee.org

 

[77cowboy]

Somewhat controversial but a very interesting and disturbing lesson that Jane Goodall learned the hard way about charity and free stuff:

Banana Thief

The chimpanzees that Jane Goodall began studying stole bananas from her tent. At first, Jane was ecstatic, but she soon learned that feeding the chimps had consequences.

www.nationalgeographic.org