yeah, poverty kills. I just said there's more work to be done. But at least now we have a system where the chance of some black child making it is better that it was before the civil rights movement.
...and that's IF - IF - the Democrats will keep their hands off the child and not make him dependent.
Unfortunately, the opposite is the case. The civil rights movement (including such luminaries as James Baldwin) demanded that only blacks may teach black children. Thus were experienced, competent teachers driven out of predominantly black schools, based solely on the color of their skin, and replaced with semi-literate, sometimes functionally illiterate black "teachers." Civil rights leaders were less concerned with helping poor blacks achieve equality than with achieving power, wealth, and control for themselves.
And the riots that civil rights leaders incited destroyed entire black neighborhoods, and with them the life chances of millions of black children.