I used to think like you until maybe 15 years ago when I started realizing that the decades and decades of substandard education and institutionalized lack of access to capital will take decades more to overcome. Sure, things are better than when we kept slaves. Things are better since African Americans were given the…

Can you imagine the uproar if white people were enslaved for hundreds of years, and after having been freed were still denied basic rights for another century, and then were denied the tools that would allow them to better their overall circumstance like decent education and access to housing and banking, and then…