43% of the residents of New Orleans and Detroit cannot read or write.
Reading is “acting white”.
On more than one occasion in my public high school in Wilmington DE, a black male walked up to another black male that was reading the textbook.
This was followed up with “why you tryin’ to act white?”.
Nothing is worse for a black person than another black person.
And while the honest, realistic response would be, "well, then, let's teach them how," the Left's response is, "poor babies, we need to affirm their worth and tell them it's okay to be illiterate."