Virtually all the things they are complaining about in that first paragraph are lifestyle things that only they can control. Black males have a shorter life expectancy as an average because many of them kill each other when they are teenagers, therefore skewing the statistic. Diabetes and heart disease are very often tied to other things that individuals control, such as obesity. Even infant mortality is tied to things such as maternal diet.
I remember a program at a Catholic hospital back in the 1970s. They provided a free pre-natal program for black ghetto residents that included things such as meal planning, pre-natal vitamins, etc. It was hard to get the girls to come to it, except that some of them were so young they didn’t have much choice. When asked at the beginning of the program what they ate for breakfast, the response was potato chips and Pepsi. When asked at the end of the program, the response was the same. In fact, that seemed to be what they ate for most meals. And the number of them who took the pre-natal vitamins could be counted on the fingers of one hand. They all got welfare and food stamps and WIC vouchers (or whatever their equivalent was then). They did absolutely nothing to help themselves or their babies.
Until the lower-income black population stops being so passive and expecting everybody else to live their lives for them, nothing is going to change, no matter how much money we throw at them. Better off blacks are doing them no favor by ignoring this and continuing to cover up for this dysfunctional group by blaming whitey.
No they won’t even accept someone else “living their lives for them.” Try to force them to put away those chips and Pepsi and see what happens!
Food stamps and other food welfare should be limited to healthy basic food and specifically prohibit using such food welfare to buy snack foods, soda, and junk food. Make them use that welfare money to buy bags of raw potatoes instead of potato chips, and packages of fresh meat and frozen vegetables instead of frozen dinners.
“Potato chips and Pepsi.” Awesome.