Extremists on both sides of the continuum are guilty of equating culture and race. Correlation is not causation.

"White" people include poor Appalachians and poor Russian peasants as much as rich elites.

It isn't because Europeans are white and sub-Saharan Africans are black that their respective social and economic conditions are what they are, it is because of a complex string of historical events and geographic realities that led to Europe developing in a certain way and sub-Saharan Africa another.

The geographic realities and histories of Sub-African societies never led them to develop the economic and cultural features that led some Europeans to go out exploring the world, discover new continents, and dominate half the world at some point.

People brought to NA by force from a variety of different countries and enslaved, then denied educations and capital, were never in a position similar to those who had the backing of armies to set up countries. They are not comparable.