“Trump is trying to bring industry back to America. That would mean good jobs for folks in the inner cities.”
Yeah. Like they’re gonna work.
I’m a retired urban high school teacher. Every teacher has a duty. It could be monitoring the cafeteria, whatever. Mine was after-school math tutoring.
Many black kids would come for after-school help. Nobody forced them. So the will to work, and do better, is certainly present in their community. But there is no opportunity. The steel mills are gone. All the factories are gone.
And idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
This doesn’t explain every problem in the black community, of course. But it is a piece of the puzzle.