They don’t have good teachers, and too much time is spent on relative crap.
There’s probably an inattentive parent component, too.
But something magical happens with language when a black child is born. Parents who couldn’t get through two pages of “Dick, Jane, and Sally” are able to cobble together letters and create unique (trashy) name for their kids. They even throw in an apostrophe from time to time.
It’s magical.
I was reading before I started kindergarten.
Since when did teaching kids how to read become the job of publik skrewl teachers?!