because the government pays them to stay poor and anything more would require ‘work’ from people who have been taught they are victims and are “entitled”. Why work for “the man” when politicians and “civic leaders” say you are owed a living by “the man”? Why would you lower yourself to that?
No one likes to serve a master, yet we do it every day when we go to work and obey our boss. In return we get paid.
People who get welfare skip the 1st step and go directly to "Get Paid", never having to lower themselves ever again to the petty, crude level of us workers.
When you add in the racial aspect, it becomes a more obvious dynamic: Never again will a person of color suffer under the stifling yoke of the white man's oppression.