I call them hold out slaves. They are still back on the plantation, refusing to leave it, while those who join into the American Dream, work for it like anyone else, actually establish themselves like any American,
People like Van Jones would rather remain slaves and victims of a dead past than join in.
Too bad. They will wait forever for their ship to come in, it will never.
Their ship came in with Johnson’s “Great Society” (in their minds); the problem is that it has sprung a leak - the white taxpayers that provided it are disappearing before their very eyes, and are replaced by foreigners who often also have their palms outstretched. Their “ship” is now being divided up with masses of Latin America’s underclass that are pouring in here, and they even compete for the same set-aside college seats, jobs, gubmint contracts, etc..
I saw a news piece a year or so ago where black welfarians were furious that new city housing buildings were filling with Chinese; they felt they were “entitled”, but some Chinese councilman had pulled some strings/made some deals and his tribe was getting the brand-new units instead. Last week we had another story here in Newark NJ; the city “social services” started receiving a flood of calls in the bitter cold we had recently from tenants with no heat in crumbling apartments, and they realized that NYC had transferred blacks (in every case I saw) from NYC homeless shelters over to horrible apartments in Newark (the city wouldn’t even let them stay in the units; they were really bad). The same NYC that is a sanctuary for illegals, and encouraged Puerto Ricans fleeing Hurricane Maria to come on up - as long as they had family to stay with.
The black permanent underclass has become a hot potato nobody wants; even the politicians that coveted them in the past for their lockstep voting realize they are just too much of a financial burden and a huge deterrent to any real investment/development.