Startling truth in what you say. I grew up around a lot of black families in San Francisco. Decent folks. About 20 percent of my block. I played in buildings in the projects (low-income housing) with black friends. There was a shift in the 1960s where young blacks started getting bad attitudes and chips on their shoulder against whites. Not all, but enough to start making crime worse. I've seen it in talking to black middle-class friends who told me about their children and grandchildren adopting ghetto behavior, even though raised better than many whites. Some of my friends were Oreos (more white on the inside than white people I knew). As I say, not all blacks, but some turned bad with bad attitudes. But enough to make it bad for all. Feel bad for the good blacks painted with the same brush by other races. And feel bad for the young blacks caught up by democrat identity politics which is confusing for them.
Right on the mark. Those who are caught-up in the ghetto mentality with local government feeding them identity politics will never get past it.
I grew up poor white trash in rural America but like my four brothers I understood what you needed to end the cycle: stay out of trouble and get your degree. Moving to St Louis MO in the mid-70's I drove by the last of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing that was being imploded, hollowed out testimony to government notions of improving the lives of chronically poor. They chased the blacks out of the city housing and destroyed suburban neighborhoods in Ferguson, Florissant and Spanish Lake. If you don't teach people how to live and raise their children it is just one criminal, dysfunctional generation after another.
Worked in Overland and then downtown for a couple years until the 2nd time I was robbed at gunpoint. Transferred out to St Ann which was better, at least in the late '70's. I got to watch the new F-18 Hornets taking off from the McDonald factory next to Lambert field which was always exciting.
When it was time to build a house I took no chances and went way out in St Charles County.
I haven't been back to the St Louis area in 30 years and from what I have read I'm not missing much. I see St Louis is #6 on this list and East St Louis IL is #3. They got that part right.
I've seen the same thing -- respectable, clean-living and long-suffering black grandparents and great-grandparents pressed into service to babysit or to raise their illegitimate grandchildren, drive their carless descendents to work, lend their grown children money to pay the rent (and never get it back), etc. They raised these children in the church, but even that was not enough to overcome the Street and the Democrat bribery and indoctrination.