[kabumpo]

No, don’t agree.
The real Africans had the benefit of unbroken history plus the rigorous socialisation of British colonialism. The American blacks had the violent disruption and eradication of their history and identity via slavery plus decades of suppression and ill-treatment after “freedom” ....
That combined with the perniciously stupid policies of the 1960s, and voila, you have the mess that we find today.

[RedMonqey]

The American blacks had the violent disruption and eradication of their history and identity via slavery plus decades of suppression and ill-treatment after “freedom” ....

I have to disagree. Blaming it on slavery is a dodge.

In the segregated school Bert High School, the four time Olympic gold winner Wilma Rudolph went to school was one of the best run schools in Clarksville, even with a lesser budget than similar white school in town. The children that went to Bert were well behaved and got a good education.

This is because although their parents were mostly drawn from (hard working, God fearing) poor tobacco farmers they instilled great value in their children "getting as good book learnin' as any white folk"

Sadly many of their descendants aren't as insistent as their predecessors...