They don’t even vaguely wish to put that behind them and become “wealthy”? (Middle class, if not better.)
Has anyone really dug into where they got the idea that this was the way to go. I think black racist hustlers are a large part of it, but that’s only a hunch in my white redneck brain.
I suspect it may be more common sense, than a hunch, based on observation.
I've seen decades of this "Plantation Population", and you are exactly on point; they have no intentions of movin' on up, unless it's to be a bigger wheel in a gang, a higher class pimp, or a higher volume drug dealer. They don't care about schoolin', and 1 in 4 doesn't graduate High School. They all have the latest Michael Jordan shoes, and cellphones, etc., somehow, and plasma TV's everywhere.....
Seldom do I see them driving a small car, either.
I currently work among 'em, on a contract job, and see them daily....