Applying our awesome powers of thinking, we have resolved to build an entire fictitious world to hide the real one. By suppressing certain accomplishments, belittling the significance of others, and by creating entire branches of scholarship to elevate persons and events of no particular import to places of prominence. It is difficult to see how the noble task of assisting others would be facilitated by concealing or demeaning the very accomplishments which gave rise to the desire to include everyone in their blessings. The accomplishments in question are broadly known as Western Civilization. If we really cared, if we were not just pretending, we would admit that the task may be advanced only by guaranteeing opportunity and providing know-how.
Opportunity comes from equal treatment before the law.
Around the mid-1960's, we got ourselves on the right track. Equal treatment before the law was extended to all, and enrollments in schools exploded. Yet, in a few years, that course was abandoned. While one might understand the motivation growing embarrassment about the chasms that separate humans the strategy is beyond comprehension. People will be helped solely by learning what they might do for themselves.