Every single American has the exact same privileges and opportunities to succeed
That is total horseshit, promulgated by someone entrenched by privilege.
If you think you have the same opportunities being educated in a school in SouthCentral LA, as you do in say Connecticut, then I invite you to go out there and explain to all the hundred-million homeowners and parents who rent, why good schools isn't a factor in property price.
In the USA, far more than in Europe, who you go to school with, what connections you make, is immensely important for the rest of your life. The whole society is now designed around entrenching the local elites, the upper 5 or 10%, and making sure all their children stay in that elite layer - that correlates with race partially, as nonwhite people start from a position of much fewer assets on average, but it's primarily about class - poor whites are excluded just about as thoroughly as poor blacks & Latino (and of course American Indians are barely even recognised as citizens, for the most part, let alone allowed to compete).
