[USNBandit]

I think the issue is even more basic than you think. While I would agree that leadership in the black community has embraced victim status, the issue isn't their leadership, but rather the welfare state itself. The leadership is just a side show to the real crime.

If you give somebody everything they need for subsistence, an unfortunate human trait is that many will not seek anything else. All it takes is a couple generations of handouts and the damage is done.

A perfect example of this would be the first group the government helped into a cycle of poverty, Native Americans. All it took to make a hearty subsistence society into dependents was a government who was there to help.

[RobbyS]

Even more problematical is that Obama thinks it should be normal for all Americans to be dependent on the government. The native English have adopted the same attitude. They have become as dependent on hand-outs as the Roman plebes were back in the time of Caesar.