Fair points, Your Highness. However, I think you're overestimating Middle America's apathy. Especially when it comes to the youth. Already, we're seeing changes. A new civil rights movement is underway even as I type this.
Furthermore, while racism is definitely holding African-Americans back, that alone doesn't explain why they seem to be having so much trouble. Immigrants from Southeast Asia were arguably even more handicapped than African-Americans when they started coming to America, and yet they suffer less from social ills in most of the United States. Or, if you want to turn back the clock even further, you can look at Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Chinese-Americans and the like. I'm sure that, given enough time, the current wave of Latino immigrants will follow the same pattern. Even now, I see Latino-Americans starting to make strides.
And it's not as if anti-black racism is somehow stronger or more harmful, or societal difficulties somehow hurt them more. Look at black immigrants from Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. While first- and second-generation black immigrants compose a tiny percentage of the American black population, they're overrepresented at top universities and in the annals of commerce. Does this mean that African-Americans are inherently inferior? Certainly not. But in my opinion, this is something worth examining.
To conclude, nothing is as simple as the pundits make it out to be.
