Why do they keep re-electing leaders who keep them stymied "down on the plantation?" It's the same query that I have about why Sharpton and Jesse Jackson maintain any credence at all. You'd think that after a few generations, people ("folks") would get "sick and tired" of being sold victimhood.
As Dick Cheney said in his speech at the RNC convention, "A litany of complaints is not an agenda." (It's not a force for change, either......or there would have been change and improvement in the ghettos, what with all of this glorious, exhilerating "victimhood" that the victocrats keep bringing to them, especially during election cycles. Why do they keep on buying it?)
Because some people are too afraid to take a step of faith... they rather be around the incompetant black people they've known all their lives rather than step out (and be among white conservatives who may not like them just for being black).
I think this is an excellent illustration of the problem. The inhabitants of an area are the ones who make it a ghetto or a nice neighborhood to grow up and live in. Yet, all you hear are complaints about the landlord, the condition of the buildings, the trash in the streets, the drug dealers, the cops, the government, etc. None of these made the neighborhood a ghetto, the inhabitants did.