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If poverty were the driving force, then Appalachia would be an absolute war zone. 

I may as well say "Certain people need to stay in school and not have babies when they are 15 and be honest and diligent."  That is also true, everyone would agree I think, but saying it and wishing for it hardly makes it any more a reality.

Just seeing a NEED and articulating it is fine, I suppose, but it doesn't offer any solution, or potential solution, or cure, or much of anything.

Some problems lack practicable solutions.

Exactly right.  
Which makes it a systemic problem with no one-stop solution.  Spending the money to prevent HS dropouts is proactive and cheaper than incarcerating them or providing assistance to a teen mom later. 

All of the naysayers of this stuff seem to be shrugging their shoulders that this one thing won't fix it or that one thing won't fix it.  Well no shit, lol, no one thing will fix it.   

I have been open to suggestions and have not heard many beyond throw money at the problems, in effect.

I've asked what the protesters want, and the list of their wants are things no government can provide because they want, if the list is correct, changes in attitudes.  That's nice and all, but not going to happen.

It would help if the protesters wanted changes that government can actually manage to do.  If it's more money for education, maybe that would help over time, I don't think the way we fund education is equitable in this country.  Obviously, there are other issues that make educating poorer people a challenge, no matter the color of their skin.

How much of all of this is mostly related to wealth?

So, they are against racism in general, and want it to end?  

I have been open to suggestions and have not heard many beyond throw money at the problems, in effect.

I've asked what the protesters want, and the list of their wants are things no government can provide because they want, if the list is correct, changes in attitudes.  That's nice and all, but not going to happen.

It would help if the protesters wanted changes that government can actually manage to do.  If it's more money for education, maybe that would help over time, I don't think the way we fund education is equitable in this country.  Obviously, there are other issues that make educating poorer people a challenge, no matter the color of their skin.

How much of all of this is mostly related to wealth?

In education, it's 100% tied to wealth.
Local tax dollars = funding for local schools.  Rich area - more tax dollars - more school funding.  And that's the simple part.  Now we have the avalanche of B.S. "school choice" is taking public dollars and funneling it to charters and now even private schools (recent ruling in Montana).  
Yes, our public tax dollars are going towards religious private schools now, thanks to republicans in power.  

It's broken.

So, they are against racism in general, and want it to end? 

Don't we all?

Most prestigious private schools operate on shoestring budgets, out of old public school buildings that had been closed and deemed unsuitable. 

Where there's a will, there's a way.