I've come to the conclusion that they have no concept of personal responsibility because they cannot connect their actions with the inevitable consequences and they will not listen to good advice.

Example 1: A black co-worker locks her keys in her car. She asks me to help unlock the car. There's no coat hanger available to try to unlatch the door locks or other tools. So, I give her the options: 1) go home get spare keys 2) call pop-a-lock, 3) break the window.

1. didn't work because she didn't want to wait.

2. didn't work because it cost too much.

3. same as #2

What is her eventual solution? Get a couple of homies to pry the door open, reach in, unlock the car. I told her they were going to damage the door. It didn't matter. They got the keys out after 30 minutes of pulling the corner of the door from the chassis. Now she's driving around with a door that doesn't seal when closed, wind, debris, rain get in the car when she's driving. Her solution? She stops making payments on the car. I watched the repo guys take it away at work. It was a new car she so I know she had full coverage insurance. I asked her why didn't she file a claim. She didn't want to pay the increased rates. She had no concept or didn't care that the bank was going to make her pay for the car minus what they get from selling it, it was going to ruin her credit going forward and would still likely increase her insurance rates since the bank was going to make a claim to repair the car against the insurance before sale.

Example 2: Black guy on the interstate shoulder in the middle of no where with a gas can walking, his late model sedan a mile back out of gas. The next exit is 5 miles ahead. I give him a ride to get gas. I ask him what happened. "My car ran out of gas". I ask him if the gas gauge is working. "yeah, it works". I ask how'd he let it run out of gas didn't the low fuel indicator come on. "yeah, but I thought I had more gas". I asked him where he was going. He said he was going to another city to pick up his gf....60 miles away.

Example 3: Daunte Wright - gets pulled over for a traffic violation. Found his license is suspended. Found he has warrants. Starts getting arrested surrounded by 5 cops, attempts to run.....where? Gets shot while struggling to get away, resisting arrest.

Do you see the common theme here? As a race they largely seem to be unable to connect action with consequences without first hand experience and even then they seem to make the same mistakes over and over again. I see it with every convict who won't stop committing the same laws they are already busted for. I see it to a lesser extent at work in the majority of our diversity hires.