Acting as a victim lessens your own personal accountability and gives a built in excuse which explains any failure you might experience. In my opinion, it is also a self-fullfilling prophecy in that you always expect to loose and you expect things to go wrong. (See Chicago Cubs as an example
) To make things worse the race hustlers of the world have carved out a multimillion dollar industry defending the "powerless". Some have even falsified and made up events in order to create victims. Obviously this behavior completely de-legitimizes actual cases of true discrimination which I am sure still occur. In this model the powerless need to stay powerless in order to keep the customers rolling in. This sounds like the entire democrat platform...
I have seen many an interview where muslims are attempting to be seen in the same light as American blacks which is inaccurate and I would think incredibly insulting.