Not to fit the stereotype but....

Note that I am not aiming to fit the stereotype but I am an African American male that has extreme troubles with math. Though, unlike the stereotype, I read and write over (along with an increasing time of studying) and no matter how hard or rigorous my mathematical training progresses to be the fruits of labor never seem to reveal themself. Not even the instructor is fully capable of enlightening my, already dim, view of the math world. Now it's just a struggle to maintain a status of which is above what is expected of me. It could be the fault of the school system or just a suppressing subconscious that resides within my mind that refuses to comprehend scabrous tasks.