FactCheck: do black Americans commit more crime?

http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-black-americans-commit-crime/19439

Crime rates among the african american population have everything to do with poverty and low educational attainment which leads to low opportunity. it has very little to do with a deficiency of "culture". In my opinion, the deficient culture argument is simply the new stand in for the genetic deficiency argument of old. it's simply the new way of saying that there is something inherently wrong with black people that explains these social ills. First it was inherent in our genes, and now the argument is that its inherent in our "culture".

---Steve