About 15 years ago the marching band from Tennessee State University (TSU), a traditionally black university, traveled to Japan. In Japan, it is not uncommon for store owners to put iPods, cellphones, and other expensive items on the sidewalk unattended in front of the store for pedestrians to view. The TSU students saw this as an open invitation to steal everything they could carry. It was so bad that the authorities stopped the entire planeload of band students and searched their persons and luggage, seizing nearly $100,000 in stolen merchandise.
Among many blacks, stealing is as natural as breathing.
Maybe this can be traces to the Civil Rights movement, which instilled a deep suspicion of the law. Every law. Law as an invention of the white man.