But it is obviously not fair or helpful to say: Well, it's all because white people_______(fill in the blank with something negative). And as you know, that response is the only one you'll hear these days.
FWIW, Blacks are at the bottom of national educational assessments. They are approximately 2 grade levels behind whites and there is extra pressure to graduate them to the next grade level because holding them back would be “racist.” So by the time they graduate high school, too many have failed to earn a high school level of competence. That shakes out in the job market.
There are plenty of individuals and others from other races who are down at the bottom of the scale too - but as an entire cohort, on average, a significant number of blacks are at least 2 grade levels behind whites upon graduation and that can be expected to limit their job fitness. Yes there are brilliant black scholars, but the data indicates that the average of the cohort is lower than the average of white, Asian and Hispanic Cohorts. And I think lower job performance fuels grievance that is used to justify higher crime rates for the cohort. ANd all this attributed to whites actively discriminating against blacks. *sigh*