>>11756914My gf is black. It gives me a lot of insight. I also grew up in a 90% black neighborhood as a kid.
Well for starters the bigger problem black people face is ...well ... "Black Culture". Rap is the biggest problem. The music glorifies gang shit, so of course some dumb kid is gonna say "Hey I can make more money robbing fools than going to college haha", and do it. What kid is gonna toil in some "boring" field like engineering and end up working a 9-5 job for the rest of his life when he can instead ride with a gang and make better money AND have more excitement, too.
Many friends I had back in high school did end up entering gangs both during and after high school.
Also a lot of black people have a constant bone to pick with whites. Not all and probably not even a majority, but a lot. That likely doesn't help with the mindset of branching into STEM. A black kid told his entire life that "Whitey is the devil" will never want to work with whites. As such he'll never enter STEM in the first place.
Socioeconomic status is big, but not as much as people think. Poor minorities and whites exist everywhere - it's not just a black problem. Trash exists of every race too. But it is a fact that people in poor areas tend to avoid getting a degree because it is A) Too expensive or B) They want a job right off the bat or C) Never finished high school in the first place.
The Black Community isn't even all that. Most black homicides are black - on - black. Black on black crime is horrible for several black neighborhoods. Black culture glorifies crime and being a gangster while also making fun of black people who decide to "act white" - in other words, who decide to better themselves. It is cannibalizing and it is sad.
I'm sure there's other stuff to talk about but I'm gonna get some sleep.
