Uh huh. Remember the Black cop who killed the Black suspect with a stolen gun in Chicago a few years back that erupted in riots in Chicago? Both players in that drama grew up in the same neighbourhood at the same time. They even attended the same school at the same time, albeit the officer was a couple of years older. One clearly made good life choices overall while the other guy clearly did not.
An of course let's pretend there aren't millions of White kids living in shitty neighbourhoods with shitty schools. In Detroit it wasn't a case of shitty schools, it was a case of a shitty attitude. A LOT of poor Black people from the South moved to Detroit to get jobs in the auto industry because you really didn't need much of an education at the time to assemble cars. Because of that they were able to provide a stable income for their families. As time went by, their kids didn't finish school because they could get good paying jobs in the auto plants and same for the grandchildren. But also as time went by the job market started getting a little more picky about education. You needed a high school diploma to get a job but many of the Black kids in Detroit never adapted to that change in life. The effect snowballed until you have the Detroit of today. Business and industry pulled out because there was a shortage of high school educated workers and now you have a city that sits on the list of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world.
But yeah, I'm sure racism had everything to do with it.