>>95138997He is being a tad facetious, but he isn't wrong.
If gathering wealth, knowledge, and prosperity benefit your children and their children then wouldn't taking that away or preventing you from gaining it have the opposite effect on them?
Not saying individual choice isn't a factor, but there are a lot more safety nets when your parents made good life choices. And an even better chance if their parents also made good choices. Problem is until the '60s blacks were deterred or outright not allowed to make those choices, due to the culture and government.
So yes, the government's stance on how they treated blacks until a few decades ago aided in how we view U.S. culture and how it views us today.
Many blacks simply turned their backs on it, not out of hand, but based on the tales from parents, grandparents, and peers about how the culture betrayed them. That's where the criminal at worst, get rich or die tryin at best sentiment came into place.
If I knew half the shit about whites in my hometown that my grandad kept hidden from me, I have no doubt I'd be racist against whites myself. But my grandfather was military and had the opportunity to learn himself that whites outside of his home weren't either racists or indifferent to racists. Many blacks weren't exposed to that so they made sure to tell their children and their children's children that 'whitey isn't to be trusted' and 'the law will fuck you over anyway, make sure you get yours'.
tl;dr
He's a prick, but he isn't wrong.
