Starting Place

In the last couple of years, and the last few months even more so, I've been motivated to accept a concept that is difficult to completely understand. I think the reasons why this is difficult to swallow, at least for my generation (that being some blend Generation X and Generation Y), are:
(1) X/Y has been programed to not notice problems of race to benefit political and economic forces of the country.
(2) X/Y has grown up in a world where racism is significantly more covert and discreet than previous generations experienced.
(3) Modern race issues are multifaceted to the point that it's just easier to dismiss. If you really wanted to understand it well enough to do something about it, you'd be looking at a regular headache.
My girlfriend's class T.A. produced this very simple but explicit video on one of the core concepts behind modern race/class inequities.

We are not all equal because we do not have the same starting place in life. If you can see the basics of this concept, you'll see that equal opportunity is a fallacy. Modern race issues are economically based, and economic inequality results in poorer health and lower levels of education which lead to about every other problem you can imagine.
Martin Luther King said, "To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor," so keeping with the theme of this blog, what can you do about this?