I recently hired three black brothers. I am now down to just one. Yesterday he was late to work as someone had done childish sabotage to his truck and poked a hole in the gas can he kept in the rear, flooding the back with gas. As he worked he related the litany of stuff that gets broken or stolen or just maliciously damaged in his all black neighborhood.
I am reminded of crabs in a bucket. If you have just one crab it will climb out. But if you have two, the one below will pull the one climbing out back down.
They all worked hard, but the others only worked long enough to get money to get high. The remaining guy has ambition and is smart, but is astonishingly uninformed on every topic imaginable.
He is exactly where the liberal power-mongers want him.
When you are poor and live in a poor neighborhood, there are two main narratives used to keep you down. There is the cultural narrative, filling your head with the idea that the poor are better than rich people, etc. (It is far more complicated, but I will leave it at that.) The other narrative is about opportunity--you can't possibly get out of poverty even if you want to, because only the rich can afford college, etc. The effect of the narratives is to discourage anyone from even trying to better themselves and get out of poverty.
>The remaining guy has ambition and is smart, but is astonishingly uninformed on every topic imaginable.
Luckily, the ignorance is fleeting...if one wishes to read, learn and listen.