There is something to be said for framing solutions to problems in a way that doesn't piss people off. Attacking poverty is more palatable to voters than attacking structural racism. It's just the way it is.
A couple of weeks ago, I heard an interview with some guy about the elimination of DEI programs in American businesses. The guy pointed out that programs that were explicitly based on race and gender, like, say, set-asides for female-owned businesses, were on the chopping block, while facially neutral programs, such as employer-sponsored skills training, were not. But the thing is, the people most likely to take advantage of skills training are women and racial minorities, and so those programs do, in practice, provide more benefits to those groups than they do to white males. It's a type of program that in reality does actually reduce the gender and race gaps in economic outcomes, but does so without explicitly targeting either, and even people going after DEI are just fine with it.
As the great Bulworth said, white people have a lot more in common with black people than they do with rich people.
