When the Jews were freed from Egypt, God had them walk for 40 years to get to Palestine, as far est as what is now Iraq and then through Jordan. The trip would take a few months if they had walked straight from Egypt, through the Sinai to Palestine. Why did God insist on this? Commentaries say that he understood that former slaves could not handle freedom so a generation or two had to pass so that only people with a history of freedom entered Palestine.

We freed the blacks without insisting that they bear the responsibilities of freedom, so they don't act responsibly. And now we have made them wards of the state, dependent on gov for everything. They cannot and will not ever be free.