Skills are rarely set in stone — with the will, even adults can better their skill (I’m a poet and don’t know it). Attitude problems rule the day. Years of so called “advancement” of historically American people of black hue actually taught them (and with the full knowledge of the communistic movements that seized the power vacuum that much American religion sadly left) that they were trapped. As modern day immigrants from African lands have repeatedly shown by their successes, that idea of being trapped by your skin color is horse hockey.
The Africans do put them to shame, and many despise American blacks for how they’ve sqyuandered opportunities they could only dream of back in Africa; while American blacks may attribute their shortcomings to racism (they often view Africans as “white” because of their command of the English language), they know that for whatever reason they do not have the skills to make the case to a company that hiring them would benefit the bottom line.
The fact that their feeble excuse holds no water doesn’t deter them from using that rather than admitting personal failure.