Discrimination is not always what you think

I was watching a TV show where a little white girl was kidnapped from her upper middle class neighborhood and a special FBI team flew out to help find her. At the crime scene, a black mother demanded to see someone and she revealed that her daughter had been abducted 9 days prior from their high-crime neighborhood, and there were vigils or community help for her, nor did cops have the time to look into it. I had two thoughts:

a) As much as I try to run from it sometimes, the likelihood is, if my kid were abducted, it wouldn't take 9 days for cops to have their attention. I'm a racial minority, but I grew up in a middle class neighborhood, and so will my kids.

b) This is why education is so important, so we can shrink the gap between economic levels. If my kid were abducted, I would move heaven and earth to get people to look for her. I have a bachelor's degree and am getting my law degree, so I know how the system works and who to talk to. But to many others out there, they grew up in fear of the police, and may not know how to get things done and navigate the justice system.

In this situation, when it came to getting the attention of police, it didn't matter that one family was white and the other was black, it mattered that one was privileged/educated/whatever you want to call it, and the other was not. So this is dumbing the issue down a bit, but really, if we want to fix economic disparity in this country, we need to improve schools so that black mother could have had a chance to get more education and not only live in a nicer area, but have the power and confidence to demand authority's assistance. She did everything she knew to do, but education would have expanded her toolbox. Bottom line, racial discrimination is still an issue, but more often than not, much of what we call racial discrimination today is actually class discrimination.