Our Chief of Police is black. And he openly states that the black part of our city eats up the majority of his resources. And that he gets the least cooperation from supposedly upstanding black citizens.
The SAME THING can be said of poor WHITE areas in the Appalachians. It's a POVERTY issue not a RACE issue.
The cycle of poverty is very hard to break...because there are so many variables. There's family acculturation, there's income levels, there's marital status, there's education, there's "life shocks"....all of these contribute to poverty.