A better approach emphasizes the skills that will help people succeed.
"That's one area where black people can succeed in this country," he thought.
In practice, people do succeed in learning to talk and understand each other.
Does he hope for a time when people succeed on merit alone?
"How many people have succeeded in being reasonable for a day, a week, a life?"
Some people have succeeded in getting back farms taken from them 30 years ago by the Communists.
"The question is, do you want to help people succeed?"
Perhaps that is why few people succeed in this field for an extended time.
Very few people succeed the first time they try.
Schools have to respond by providing courses at which young people will succeed.