I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm absolutely fighting for an end to the war on drugs and improving schools. For me everything is about education. Preventing terrorism, preventing gang violence, improving economic productivity and competitiveness, improving health, decreasing inequality, absolutely everything comes back to education.
But anyway, I think it's a bit more grey than 'is it a race problem or isn't it'. You're right, Pizza, that it's a massive over-generalization, but it's also a predictive one. As I said before, it seems like the racial disparities in socio-economic classes have real impacts on the view we view race. They make black people feel, subconsciously, inherently inferior to white people even if they aren't of a lower class. That's gonna contribute to learned helplessness and prevent people from escaping poverty. Similarly, even if the intention behind profiling is not racial in nature, the LEOs involved are going to learn to associate blacks with crime and so is the rest of society. That's how we end up with longer prison sentences for black people who commit the same crimes as white people, and racially motivated police brutality. All of this is evidenced by the various studies, some of which I linked in this thread, which show that LEOs are faster to categorize blacks as a threat and, depending on the circumstances, faster to shoot. We can't just ignore the racial elements of the socio-economic problems.