It’s not just that most of the more astute are afraid to speak out; most are afraid even to try to connect the dots about what is happening because they know they would then have no choice but to speak out.
I think there is a lot of hidden (and not-so-hidden) guilt about having accepted the cynical liberal white man’s dollar to become breeding stock for votes.
We hear harangues about slavery every day. Ridiculous. Even more ridiculous when you do the math. A man complaining today about the effects of slavery, which ended in 1865, is the chronological equivalent of an Englishman in 1926 (ie 8 years after the end of WWI) complaining about the effects of losing the American colonies. It may be remembered, but it’s hardly relevant.
The welfare plantation, on the other hand, is a mere 53 years old (give or take) but it has had devastating effects on the welfare recipients as well as the devastating effect on the economy when government must confiscate trillions of dollars from the economy every single year to fund welfare programs while still going additional trillions in debt. The ‘menu’ has expanded to bizarre, ludicrous degrees: free school meals, EBT cards, medical care and housing. Of course, when the recipients didn’t like their depressing, crime-ridden free housing the government got the bright idea to put them into previously-idyllic suburbs under Section 8.
The racial invective - reparations, white privilege, etc. - is a sad, predictable attempt to deflect responsibility for their own choices - the largest and worst choice is accepting 30 pieces of silver for a lifetime of mere existence.