Being “Black” — culturally black — is indeed a significant part of this issue.
That’s why all black schools worked so well back a hundred years ago. Because in those schools “being Black” was defined as being a good, disciplined student.
For the past fifty years “being Black” was come to be defined as being the ever-victim, never acting like a white or a Tom. Always showing some diss to authority, especially when teh authority is not Black or Tom.
typo- “Always showing some diss to authority, especially when the authority is not a Black or is a Tom.”
The culture they have chosen is the problem, not their race in and of itself.