The question is, what can we do as parents, what can we do as African-American men...”
How about this: if your son dresses like a thug, gets kicked out of school like a thug, talks like a thug, hangs around kids who look and act just like him - maybe you can address the problem rather than just passing him off onto some else in another city. Maybe you could monitor him a little more closely. There’s a whole bunch of things you could do as a parent that you did not do.