Yes the pool black boys born in Africa are less privileged, but there are people like Nelson Mandela and Tutu, who raised from obscurity to fight for their people.
Looking from the opposite point of view,六甲山翁, if you were born under privileged, would you just give up and accept your fate? I for one will not. The least I can do is to fight for myself.
Old chinese saying like "萬般皆下品,唯有讀書高" is so obsolete. Education should not be the goal for life, neither should degrees be.So far the replacement I found for that is: be all you can be.