[AndyTheBear]

...as long as we think we're owed we're going nowhere."

That's true about all of us in many different relations, including our relationship with God.

[MrB]

He swerved into the truth of the Black American plight there:

As long as they think someone owes them something, they’ll go NOWHERE.

Only those that get out from under this thinking make it in America, regardless of all the affirmative action and wealth transfer.