Energizer
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Nothing close to the majority of the intellectual movement of a group (blacks included) had a secessionist program. Frederick Douglas and a few others seemed to say things towards that end, but without a fundamental grasp of what the state is and how it works, the idea did not grab hold in a meaningful way. Instead blacks took the now obviously destructive path of getting handouts from the state, entrenching them in poverty and social degeneration for generations.
Has less to do with welfare and more to do with being in generation after generation of extreme poverty. The incentive to work also has to be there... Most jobs are not generative or meaningful so they merely exist to exploit the labor of the working class to make business owners wealthier. Out in the Midwest, northeast, and south, where most poor minorities live, the Kind of jobs available are not very good from what I've seen... Things like 11 hours of factory work a day. I don't think there's much hope in those kind of areas. Even recently for example flint Michigans mayor denied there was lead in the water even though children were being poisoned by it. How can you have a thriving city when there's toxic amounts of lead poisoning your citizens? Hard for me to imagine any city doing well if it's own city government is ruled by people that incompetent. Capitalism and greed are also to blame for extreme income inequality.
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