“We haven’t seen American Indian problems like this for over a century, in spite of a low level of continuous discontent.
But again, the freedmen never got tobacco and casino concessions either.”
You have to look at the history... Native Americans were deemed a martial race, so unsuitable for slavery — they had to be exterminated. At least kept away. They, at least those that survived for the most part, kept their independence.
Blacks, however, were seen as a docile race and ready to be owned. They were kept close, which itself was a curse not just during slavery, but after it. They were bred for manual field labor and were completely dependent on their massahs. Now, they are dependent on the gubmint. Since they were bred for manual labor and (unless they are athletes), they just cannot participate in the manual labor due to a number of circumstances — most notably actual loss of manual labor jobs. Unfortunate but that is the truth.
And even so. That’s talking about the effect of presuppositions about races. There are lines of white people that differ in characteristics, but we never hear of the hunky lines dying out.
And also. The Democrat meddling factor really has meant a lot to the ill in the picture. At the time Jim Crow ended, black families were almost caught up with white families. But the Democrats, never able to leave well enough alone, kept on meddling.
When a modern immigrant comes from Africa, we see a whole different mindset. Those people tend to hustle, and earn like it. They may be no smarter than their slave brethren, but they have a different worldview.