Well being poor doesn’t cause you to commit crime. Nor does being black, or mentally ill. What leads you to commit crime is bad values. The question is why, where did you get those bad values and why didn’t you get good ones instead? I don’t know what aspects of black culture lead to their kids growing up with bad values at higher rates than other demographics. But clearly something there is at work. Melanin is a non-issue but the culture 100% is, and blacks definitely have their own unique culture.

I suppose it would be interesting to compare black kids raised in the inner city vs black kids raised in the suburbs or other places, or by white adoptive parents, etc. IDK how you pin it down. But my point was I definitely don’t think our society is interested in having that conversation. There are too many charlatans out there blaming it all on racism to make a buck.