Skills will appear when the motive to gain them does.
Perhaps it will take a season of descent into the kind of shame that is represented by Ferguson-type incidents. One incident might not chip their armor very much, but several may have quite an impact.
Sooner or later it has to dawn on these folks “Hey, we have enslaved ourselves and it is our own damned fault.” God does a pretty good job of clarifying this to the obtuse through ordinary moral consequences.
How do we make up for whole generations that have been denied any kind of education whatsoever? At this point, they are akin to the first wave of Indians moved to reservations; they simply have no role in this economy. Can their offspring? Sure, if we were allowed to educate them and treat them truly as equals; if we insist on looking the other way when they say “wiff” instead of “with” then they are also doomed.