What the hell is wrong with these people?
Are they really stuck on the plantation?
Yes, they are. And they like it there. Things are simple and clear on the plantation: you are being oppressed, and there is an oppressor. Easy to see, easy to think, easy to act. Workers on the plantation have no free will, they have to be cared for (in some minimal way) by the owner. Well, what do you know - today's social services provide exactly that care.
I must say that it's not unique to any one social group to look for an enemy. Many groups willingly succumb to that lure. That's where they get all those ideas that "jews stole all our money" and so on. Once you identified the enemy, you are no longer responsible for the problem - the enemy is. It is psychologically comfortable to point fingers at someone else for an individual's personal failings. That's why such groups cry about oppression, but at the same time do nothing to escape that oppression - it's just empty talk.
If things are really that bad in the USA for those permanently disadvantaged folks, they'd be already out of here - the world *is* large enough. Canada alone can house 100 million people, since most of the territory is not claimed by anyone; Siberia can easily acccept another 100 million; Central Australia is nearly empty, and it's a whole continent; with enough water it's good for a billion or two. But, of course, there is a catch. First, you'd have to work. That kills the idea right there. And then you won't have a handy oppressor anymore who'd be responsible for everything bad that happens to you.
Problems like these cause disintegration of larger multinational states. I believe this will happen to the USA, eventually. Too many large social groups are unwilling to live together. Latest news from LA and other places look like reports from the front lines. Ideas about multiple cultures happily coexisting are good, but too many people have vested interest in not coexisting - and it always takes two to tango.
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. -Harriet Tubman
They have alternative universes and galaxies milling around in their minds