I do find irony in this demographic buying into the notion that the Democratic party is in their corner, while said party policies work to keep them in their current state

it is very sad, but they aren't the only community to be suckered by their politicians.

conservatives have been gulled by Republican for over a quarter of a century; we talked about the Rust Belt workers somewhere else in this post

true enough, the black community has suffered the most from the sabotage the democrats have aimed at them to keep them on the welfare-voting plantations; pretty any much any policy you can name that has been targeted at the black community by the democrats in the name of "helping" has had negative effects. Ebonics, higher minimum wages, etc