Why are black people always later and unable to arrive anywhere on time, even for work?

The apparent inability of black people to be punctual is legendary. According to Critical Race Theory, it is motivated by a rejection of White Supremacy Culture

For most people in the west, arriving on time and making sure than any calculations undertaken are accurate and precise, are more or less second nature. How could you run any business without such requirements? Can you imagine a hospital where there was no insistence on calculations relating to say drug dosages being accurate, and no obsession with perfection, no bothering with arriving on time to begin a shift? It would be absurd, wouldn’t it? Medical schools in America though which aim to be anti-racist and adhere to the tenets of Critical Race Theory explicitly reject such standards, as they are said to be part of a white supremacist mindset.

Many people who have worked with Africans or people from the Caribbean will probably have noticed that punctuality tends not to be a strong point. This is such a common thing, that it is unlikely in the extreme to be accidental. It is rather a deliberate rejection of the values of the white, professional class. It is observed in schools and colleges, then later at university and in the workplace. This is not merely the observation of a white racist, it is something about which black people themselves joke, it is an accepted behaviour. Those of Caribbean heritage refer to this phenomenon by the initialism of BPT, which is short for black people’s time. You will sometimes hear two guys making an arrangement for a certain time and one will say, ‘ That’s seven GMT, you know, none of your BPT!’ Africans refer to African time or Lagos time or something of the kind. It is quite a thing that black people do not take timekeeping seriously. I have seen several explanations advanced for this, some relating to slavery and others to the idea that in Africa, time used to be regulated according to the movement of the sun, rather than by consulting a wristwatch.

In recent decades, this rejection of western notions of timekeeping has been codified as part of Critical Race Theory and strict adherence to punctuality dismissed as an aspect of white supremacism. A link is given below to a document currently being used at the Duke University School of Medicine in the United States. A medical school. The document in question is titled, Dismantling Racism and Advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the School of Medicine. On page 39, we read about white supremacy culture and learn that, ‘In the workplace, white supremacy culture explicitly and implicitly privileges whiteness and discriminates against non-Western and non-white professionalism standards related to dress code, speech, work style, and timeliness. Some identifiable characteristics of this culture includes perfectionism, belief that there’s only one right way…’

Of course, in many medical procedures there IS only one right way and what doctors do, really needs to be as near to perfect as is humanly possible. As for being punctual and turning up when they are expected, that too is pretty important for doctors and other medical staff. The supposed inability of many black people to arrive when they are expected has nothing at all really to do with ‘white supremacy culture’. There are various reasons for what is seen, one being that it is an act of passive resistance against those perceived as being in authority, but for a medical school to legitimise this kind of thing as part of a culture on inclusion is beyond all belief.

https://medschool.duke.edu/sites/default/files/2021-08/dismantling_racism_and_advancing_equity_diversity_and_inclusion_ADA.pdf