Because blacks are disproportionately poor
And I go back to a previous post recounting how Thomas Sowell, Starr Parker, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, and many others have done exhaustive research on the dynamics of the black community and have exhaustively written their results. Despite rampant racism and segregation, black people were the most rapidly advancing demographic economically UNTIL the Great Society and the resulting "nanny state'.
So isn't it at least worth taking a look at that the 'nanny state', its own form of racism, as having been a significant factor in creating a black demographic that is disproportionately poor? And wouldn't the compassionate thing be to condemn that form of racism that encourages people to be disproportionately poor?
I fail to see the establishment of cause and effect on social programs and the current state of the black community. I think the works of Sowell, Parker et al are intended to satisfy the Conservative think tanks that feed them
Essentially, how do Great Society programs like Jobs programs, healthcare and educational support make things worse for poor people?
I grow tired of the Conservative meme of you have to force people to suffer in order for them to "pick themselves up by their bootstraps" and get a job.
Right now our problem is the lack of well paying jobs to allow people to rise from poverty. Cutting the social safety net will not help that happen any sooner
The fact that you don't want to accept the evidence from PhD economists and historians who have done exhaustive research on the subject, is not a good reason for me to dismiss the evidence that they present and have backed up with an enormous amount of data furnished from other than those 'think tanks' you seem to hold in such high contempt. Nor did those think tanks fund any of the research, nor do they benefit from the sales of the books that have been produced. Anyway, George Mason University (Walter Williams) is hardly a think tank. Nor do I believe that Starr Parker or Shelby Steele are affiliated with any particular group.
Further having spent a fair amount of my adult life working directly with poor families, I have witnessed absolutely nothing that even causes me to question the data that those learned people have produced.
Sometimes stepping outside the assigned talking points and prescribed ideological mindset can do wonders to open one's eyes and one's mind. So much of the political rhetoric is pure myth.