That's because the wealth and education level of one's parents is much more highly correlated to the wealth and education level of a child than any other factor

That's because the wealth and education level of one's parents is much more highly correlated to the wealth and education level of a child than any other factor. People who are poor and uneducated tend to raise children who end up poor an uneducated, regardless of race. Studies have shown that growing up in poverty produces measurable changes in the brains of infants. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0080954 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... It may be en vogue to focus on race and identity has the major problems in our society, but all the data points to poverty and being the unifying cause - not race.