“The system is set up against me” by giving me free housing and income
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In this, Cardi B is correct, although probably not in the way she thinks she is...
"Compassionate" programs like section 8 housing and foodstamps deprive humans of the most powerful motivator for self-improvement; survival. Some people are strong enough that they'll get off these programs as quickly as possible, and some will say "eh, this is good enough for me," and stay on those programs for the rest of their lives, rather than attempt to do better for themselves. Mankind's nature need to conserve resources during times of plenty will in this environment actually work against him/her, and over time, a culture of dependence develops in these communities, as those who accept them as the best they can get, or "good enough" filter into these communities, and they stagnate. You have the rare social mutation, of course, as the community that depends on such programs to survive will slowly get worse and worse, causing those who are closer to the other end of the spectrum begin to find their circumstances intolerable and attempt to find a way, any way to improve their station in life (including crime). Others within the community can and often do attack such individuals both verbally and socially (an example of this within urban black communities is accusing those that study and work hard as "acting white" or "trying to be white")
Cardi B is fortunate in that her parents encouraged her to do better, to seek a better life, and that they themselves set an example she could observe, however many in these communities are not so fortunate.
"Don't feed the animals", say the signs in national forests and wildlife refuges. If you make people (or animals) dependent on things they didn't earn, you weaken them. As I tried to warn in my much longer comment further up, this can also be passed on civilizationally and generationally, where people get used to what they have, and perpetually want for more.
Not everyone is equal. Difference necessarily means people are unequal. You can't have both, even though modern political thought says we're all the same, that we're blank slates (tabula rasa), and all our actions are due to environmental factors. It's objectively false. If it was true, men and women would be equal, and biological differences would only arise due to "socio-economic" factors. The environment does play a factor, but not as much as other variables.
In any case, I'd venture a safe guess that this is probably why many black Africans hate African-Americans. Black Africans don't have (or didn't come from a place that had) all the welfare programs, and weren't spoiled like blacks are here, so they see them as spoiled welfare queens purely dependent upon government gibs. Using welfare used to be associated with societal shame, as a means to reduce its use unless you absolutely needed it for an emergency. But now? It's practically celebrated in many non-white communities. They brag about how much welfare they get, and brag about cheating the system. They take out of the system far, far more than they ever put back in. They're hypocrites, expecting other people to treat them better than they treat them in return, expecting other people to maintain civilization that they themselves drag down, expecting other people to work so they can be a wallow in slothful behavior, stealing the altruism and efforts of better people.
Welfare is meant to be for those truly in need, where one's neighbors, community, and people truly love one another, and help and provide for one another when in need. Welfare, as with all modern things the government has taken control of, has corrupted this naturally healthy communal outlet for help, and twisted it to maintain the dregs of society, people that don't deserve it, and perpetually take advantage of it. Past nations had a great method for dealing with such people: banishment. These people are actively taking advantage of us, actively harming us, and don't share our values or can maintain our systems. At minimum, the most merciful punishment they deserve is deportation, preferably to a nation where they demographically belong to.