Commentary 
If you are black in America, you are indoctrinated to believe that your skin color represents immutable burdens exclusive to only you and those within your racial group. The programming is so effective that it is passed down from generation to generation as if it’s a shared cultural understanding among your entire racial group.
This tradition is constantly upheld and reemphasized through political grandstanding, but mainly through news media. It doesn’t matter that from 1980 to 2008 black men made up 6 percent of the U.S. population yet committed 52 percent of the homicides (pdf). It doesn’t matter that black Americans have the highest rate of single-motherhood and non-marital births (pdf) in the country. It doesn’t even matter that in 2019 less than one in five black American eighth-grade students were reading at a proficient level. In fact, reading proficiency levels are more than likely to be worse now as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic policies. All that appears to matter is the traditional belief that these conditions exist solely because of racism in spite of a multitude of factors devoid of racism that deliver these staggering statistics….