Institutional racism in and out of schools

I attended an event focusing on hunger in Norristown earlier today. While the talk was on hunger- I couldn't help but think about how much it was also about race. There were two black women from the Hunger Memoirs movement- they shared their story with the audience. Race was not addressed once during the presentation which may very well be problematic. However, one particular aspect of Tianna's story stood out to me. She had become homeless because the project she was living in with her husband and two children had lead paint. Her eldest son got lead poisoning from the walls and has subsequent brain damage. Tim Wise discusses how in school the black students were put on a track lower than the white students, while I do not deny that this is true, there are also other racist institutions at play which only make the problems in school worse, and in some cases do make racial minorities less equipped to succeed in school even without biased teachers. In the case of Tianna and her son, multiple forces were at play which will decrease the success of the young boy regardless of how teachers may treat him. Tianna grew up hungry and in poverty, she had her children early on in her life and received little education. Her son was born into the same racially oppressed position as his mother. Had he been attending school at all, he was likely to be behind the curve due to malnutrition and hunger. Now, he is not only hungry and trying to learn, but due to racial zoning and institutional white supremacy, he was put in an unsuitable home and has a mental impairment due to his close proximity to toxins. Now it doesn't even matter if the teacher was biased necessarily, this young boy is not going to be at the same academic level as his well-fed, toxin-free peers. These outside sources were something that was not addressed in the chapters (first 3.5 thus far so maybe they will be) I read in White Like Me but I feel they are important in addressing the systemic racial institutions at play as well as the bigots and racist institutions in the schools themselves.