Slavery was horrible. Sadly, it was common throughout the world then and still exists today. While I'm not sure I would include this in the core standard, it is true. Many of the slaves did engage in a trade they learned as slaves (e.g. blacksmith) and the majority became farmers during the...
This seems like more of an education problem. Unless you think minorities are unable to compete intellectually with whites and Asians, then this needs to be handled at the elementary and secondary school levels.
Example - When the NCAA implemented prop 48 it helped create the prep school...