Owned a business in Valdosta GA. We motored through all the temp agency candidates and were in dire need of talent to work on the plant floor for us. I got the bright idea to drive into the projects to one house in particular where you could see about 15 able bodied men hanging on the front porch all day long just talking and doing their thing. I was willing to hire as many as were interested. I parked in the driveway, got out of the car and one gentleman walked towards me yelling "if you ain't bringing me my check, you can turn around and get your ass out of here". That was 26 years ago. Boy was I naive. My partner and employees (80% black) all laughed at me and shook their heads when I told them what had happened.
When we sold the company we had a team of 39 employees. We were working with chemistry so we had to send about half to night classes for remedial reading and arithmetic so that they could follow recipes, volumes, temperature, weights, particle sizes, etc. We knew we had to invest in them if we wanted capable people. We gave them insurance and paid $12 starting per hour. The majority of our full-time employees had never had insurance in their lives.
It took 7 years to get a core group that were capable of being full time employees. We motored through hundreds upon hundreds of temps who had no interest in learning or working. The stories I could tell you.
Suffice to say, I have learned from experience that they haven't given up, they just don't know any other way than dependence on the government. They have been groomed by democrats. and not one democrat is interested in changing that. To condemn or chastise the black culture that is so harmful to our black brothers and sisters, would be to lose votes, and rats are not about to let that happen.