“Skin color — is it important?”
It’s not just skin color, it’s what’s correlated with skin color, like IQ, and that’s definitely important.
As long as people hide their heads in the sand regarding this inconvenient truth the race problem will only get worse.
Correlations matter in some contexts. For example, we don't travel into SE DC neighborhoods for any reason. But since we are dealing with a bell curve of individuals, we can cherry pick the individuals from the top end of the bell curve from any race, ignore the masses in the middle, and lock up the low end of any race as soon as they do something stupid.