"Struggling" how?
"Oppressed" how?
"Manipulated" how?
"Pit" of what?
"Designed" by whom?
"Forced upon" how?
What "wicked politicians?"
Throwing around nebulous concepts too fuzzy to be disproven is easy, and always the mark of a charlatan. The writer has provided many historical analogues for the scenario he presents. You have provided nothing but slander and wishful thinking in dissent.
If the Black community is held in contempt, it is precisely because of the crusading, yet inane, exculpation you demonstrate, here.
Where to begin. Before government benefit programs there was a vast network of religious and secular helping agencies that dealt directly with poverty and need. These have largely been supplanted by government mandated programs creating a diminishing of caring for and about those in need.
The one size fits all notion of dealing with human deprivation has reduced our ability to respond appropriately to individuals in crisis. We now keep them in perpetual crisis by providing a modicum but not a sufficiency of help to overcome their crisis. This is the nature of oppression, to maintain the conditions that create suffering.
The rest you will have to figure out for yourself. I can not do all your work for you.
As to the writer’s historical analogues there are, in a word, misrepresented.