The racial component is not a property of genetics except insofar as one's race is evident to a white onlooker. So your implied reasoning is exactly backwards.

The racial component is not a property of genetics except insofar as one's race is evident to a white onlooker. So your implied reasoning is exactly backwards. It's 100 years of slavery followed by 100 years of oppression, conditions imposed on a set of people because of skin pigment. This is the hand the US citizenry has been dealt. Or rather I should say this is the hand the US has dealt itself. If we as a country are behind because we've left a non-trivial subset of our own citizens behind, that's as much an indictment as anything else.