Its multiple things. You also have a generation (Baby Boomers) who are mostly responsible created the issues we see now throughout the nation, but their offspring either are too inept, too distracted, or too scared to point the finger.
They're too occupied playing the role of the mayor in the film "Jaws", pretending there's nothing wrong that throwing more money and "awareness" at won't make it all better. One day it will bite them in the ass.
The Democratic side of the coin created this entitlement mess and use as a form of indentured servitude, e.g., welfare for a vote. Slavery exists in a new, more "palatable" form. Welfare. But this time color means nothing except for green.
Regardless of skin color, there is nothing either well or fair about welfare. It destroys people from within. The Great Society is a total failure. It sucks.