A lot of what it tries to portray is the result of decisions made by their parents and grandparents.
It used to be the cultural norm that parents "wanted a better life for their children" than they had.
That motivation used to be called "sacrifice." Parents sacrificed so their children could have better lives.
That ethos is gone in the black community. This isn't "systemic racism," it's the consequences of LBJ's Great Society programs.
It's still there in the Asian communities built on multigenerational families. It's mostly still there in the European communities. It's likely still there in the Hispanic communities, too.
Even considering whatever "systemic racism" was inherent in "separate but equal," there are many causes of black poverty in the United States, as well as cyclical periods of gains and losses since emancipation and the Civil War.
People should read this wikiepedia entry, The Great Migration. Then read the companion links at the bottom, the Second Great Migration, and then the final New Great Migration to see how African-Americans improved since Reconstruction.
Excerpt from The Great Migration:
African Americans made substantial gains in industrial employment, particularly in the steel, automobile, shipbuilding, and meatpacking industries. Between 1910 and 1920, the number of blacks employed in industry nearly doubled from 500,000 to 901,000.[29] After the Great Depression, more advances took place after workers in the steel and meatpacking industries organized into labor unions in the 1930s and 1940s, under the interracial Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The unions ended the segregation of many jobs, and African Americans began to advance into more skilled jobs and supervisory positions previously informally reserved for whites.
Between 1940 and 1960, the number of blacks in managerial and administrative occupations doubled, along with the number of blacks in white-collar occupations, while the number of black agricultural workers in 1960 fell to one-fourth of what it was in 1940.[33] Also, between 1936 and 1959, black income relative to white income more than doubled in various skilled trades.[34] Encountering very little employment discrimination, blacks had higher labor force participation rates than whites in every U.S. Census from 1890 to 1950.[35] As a result of these advancements, the percentage of black families living below the poverty line declined from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent by 1960 and to 30 percent by 1970.[36]
President Lyndon Johnson put an end to all that, and then President Barack Obama blamed "white people" for it.
And now, desperate Democrats inciting rioting and looting to blame President Donald Trump for it.
-PJ
Thank you for the post and supporting information. Good stuff to have on hand.