The black middle class faces a different problem. It is being mummified, wrapped and trapped between the mainstream and the underclass. Educational resources, transportation, and jobs are not the problem. The ideals of equal rights and a color blind society were substituted for reality. Unlike the past, apartheid in the underclass is not the result of legal status.
Institutionalized racism is now the gatekeeper, which mires the poor in their circumstance.
Individual will is the only tool, broken and rusted, left for the poor to leave poverty. Equality by status has its appeal, especially to blacks. The black middle class tired of having its success attributed to preference rather than hard work, supports the elimination of affirmative action in poll after poll. It's the fair thing to do. This is the race card, dealt from the bottom of the deck.