I admit to sometimes wondering what America would be like...
If we didn’t have misbegotten schemes like government welfare entitlement bribery, the average black American experience would likely today be much like that of the recent African immigrant. They would be too busy (and happy) hustling in various legitimate businesses to care; an exotic look would be regarded as a plus rather than a minus. And they’d have thick skins and laugh off things like being compared to Zulu queens and kings.
Basically we have the government forever telling them “Oh, poor you!” And they believe it.
GWB said it so nicely: the soft bigotry of lowered expectations.