The welfare state might have damaged them more then they culture.
Walter Williams argued that the welfare state broke the black family -referring to the amount of single parents-, something even slavery couldn’t do.
That’s true, but the welfare state is responsible for a large portion of their culture.
Your culture is formed around the things in life that are important to you, collectively and individually.
When your main monetary compensation comes from the government, with its limitations and its unintended consequences, the black culture is what you get.
This is what the neo-Marxist elites are aiming for with white (ancestral European) culture. They have been working on it earnestly since the 1960s. Today, the work has reached a critical mass.