Unfortunately true; many children (predominantly black) are raised in environments that would never be accepted for average white children. The state has no means to accept all of them, so it just turns a bling eye to it.
I would have agreed with you a few years ago, but I no longer think it’s as closely tied to race as it once was. If you travel to rural areas, you may be unpleasantly surprised with the growth of the white-trash underclass who subsist on meth and welfare.
I recently took a trip to rural MO and felt the lack of a weapon more acutely than when I have been deployed to third world hellholes. Equality has usurped liberty as our national ideal. As it is easier to reduce the mean, rather than raise the average, Obama is succeeding exceptionally well. This new American ideal is possible!