However where race comes into this is why there is a far higher percentage of black people in poverty, and I believe this is still a legacy of slavery and segregation.
Your argument would be greatly enhanced if you could show other places in the world where there is no legacy of slavery or apartheid, where the educational or socioeconomic achievements of blacks rivals that of others. I know of none, but I would be interested in a serious referral whether blacks are in the majority or not.
Yeah, let's find a country in the world where black people were not in slavery, didn't suffer from imperialism, or where black people haven't come into the country as underdogs......
Hmm, can't find one.
However this isn't me saying there isn't an issue within black communities. At the same time the Asians might look at the white people and think the same thing, "why don't they study harder" etc etc.
Black people probably are different, and in many cases are trying to conform to a different way of living life and not conforming that well. I'm no expert on the way races do things differently. What I do know is that in education that is purely academic, many bright kids get left behind because they don't conform to the way of teaching that is imposed on them.
In the US though, there is a big issue, and a lot of people are doing not a lot to sort it out. And some are probably working to stop things being sorted out.
The phrase "you can make it if you work hard" doesn't always apply any more, the view of the family has not helped, and many other such images that the govt has tried to portray, and i'm not talking race here.
Do people know how to bring up kids, make a family work, and a lot of other things? Some people figure it out, a lot don't, hence the 40% divorce rate for first marriages.