It really means two things ... and versions of those two things
I'm caught between a rock and a hard place, or I'm going in circles, or How do you get out here, and so forth.
That is sort of the dilemma the poor black people have got themselves in ... caught between taking the money ... or doing what the Asians usually do ... take the opportunities America offers get an education, start a business, and work hard. We have a part of society that have believed the money comes in the mail, and that do not work much, and has little ambition: often the children are drop puts, etc.
There are exceptions of course; but the majority get involved in drugs, or other nefarious activities. Few aspire to becoming an upstanding citizen, having their own business or activity producing their own income to live a good life MOO
Thus they can be used as Obama says ... an angry hurricane ready to blow ...
The opportunity is there ... somehow they do not see them or out of hand refuse them. Not the blacks only there are many others. Still we have destroyed the black family with our paying of money to single black women with children; and other entitlements. Shame on us.
Why did no one peep a word when Obama deleted the welfare reform Clinton and past Presidents did?
Welfare is: When someone is hungry,nearly starved giving them one cob of corn to eat instead of seeds and the knowledge to plant them. Why is it even today with the gov. push on education do we still see white and black people talking like they were not tought to read? Why is the hip hop ghetto culture promoted as cool and hip?