I feel like you just completely ignored the point in my previous reply. Which is that there are better, more illuminating questions to ask.

I didn't say that poverty was a univariate cause of higher crime rates, I said that the link between poverty and crime is a better, more solvable avenue than the link between black skin and crime. There's also black people's increased exposure to criminality which comes, in part from the legacy of conditions that black people were forced into until fifty-seven years ago.

There's the disenfranchisement that comes from living in a country where people who look like you were legally discriminated against until sixty years ago and are still discriminated heavily against today depending on where you live. That inevitably has an impact on your psychology and the way you view your options in life.

As I mention in the article, there's the glorification of black criminality and violence in the music and film industries. Record labels don't pour millions into music where people of any other colour talk about killing each other or selling drugs (more here if you're interested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DxHL2i3cZo).

As for fentanyl and meth, these are drugs that derange people's thinking, leading to a corresponding increase in criminal behaviour. The same is true for opiates and drugs like heroin that are ravaging white communities (so is meth actually). It's just that the way these drug epidemics are treated and reported on is notably different (more here if you're interested - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121004/).

Criminality is not positively correlated with being black. It's correlated with a number of socioeconomic factors, some of which have vastly disproportionately affected black people. If you ask "Gee, why are black people overrepresented in crime statistics?" And stop thinking at, "Oh, I guess having black skin just makes people criminals," then you're not thinking at all.