Segregation

'Success' is subjective.
To some it's having a big house and a big car and a big-legged woman.
To others it's the affectational show of designer goods.
To some it's having acquired post-grad degrees.
To others it's having a good job.

But a big house and a big car and a big-legged woman end up costing money and creating debt instead of making money and building assets.
(Okay, a big legged woman can make you money - but that's a different post.)
Designer goods only create wealth for the designer.
Higher learning is only valuable if it can be applied in a piratical manner.
Being able to walk away from a high paying job and being able to pick and choose for whom one would like to work is to be preferred to being a slave to such a job.

Sure, we've made great strides in equality since the end of state-sponsored Segregation - but at what cost?
We now have Black coaches in the NFL, Black politicians, Black billionaires, Black tennis players and golfers - but do these people benefit those who are stuck in the ghetto?
Before the end of Segregation - a Black doctor, lawyer or businessmen would still live in the neighborhood but in a bigger and better house.
Since the end of Segregation - Black doctors, lawyers or businessmen have left for entirely new neighborhoods.
Sure, many of these neighborhoods are still primarily Black - but 'Black Flight' is more to blame for the creation of more ghettos than is 'White Flight'.
Many Blacks now segregate themselves from those who made them their money in the first place.
Many Blacks now segregate themselves from 'those Black people'.
Many never really felt that segregation was wrong - most just resented the fact that they were the ones being excluded from access to better resources.

Is everyone equal?
Should everyone be equal?
Well... No and no.
Being equal has never been an inalienable right - equal access is all that is required for a fair and just society to exist.
What one does with his resources and opportunities is up to him.