Blacks and school

Systemic racism is seen in statistics that show Blacks trail whites in many areas but the most damming is in education. Much of student performance is determined by their home life. 48% of Black children raised by single moms live in poverty. These children do not have the advantage of two parent families when it comes to things like learning respect for authority and understanding how school work teaches self discipline. They are off to a bad start and the tendency is to go down hill from there. Opportunity doesn't come knocking on their door and they are stuck with low paying jobs or worse they look for ways to make money without working. By the time they hit middle school they feel that they don't fit in to the educational system. They are unable to compete and begin to understand that school is not their thing. Things are so bad that many black students believe that getting good grades makes them white. There was a football game in Minneapolis a few years ago where a mostly black high school defeated a mostly white school 42 to 0. The white students held up a large sign which said, BUT WE CAN READ. Until the education gap is narrowed the Blacks will continue to live like second class citizens and be mired in a disproportionate number of criminal activities.