To say that race distinction is something that is taught not something we're born with is extremely inaccurate. Intelligence tests often are designed to test pattern recognition, and we're train to recognize patterns throughout school. (It's something they started with early with my children, at least.)

The color of your skin is part of the pattern in recognizing you and categorizing you through visual receptors. We are a visual species, and first impressions are almost always to our eyes. Our brain then catalogs other features: hair, nose, symmetry, etc. We're inherently born to distinguish patterns. Most newborns can recognized a scrambled picture of their mothers within a few weeks of birth. It's because they recognize patterns about their mothers' faces.

So, the color of your skin, the slant of your eyes, the curl of your hair are NOT things that can be ignored, and it's not something that children are taught to recognize. What we're taught is that while we recognize these distinctions, people are people for all their differences.

As far as intelligence goes, people can be blessed with a great deal of intelligence with no guidance on how to use it. For example, you could be the smartest person in the world, but if no one taught you how to read, you'd be severely handicapped in trying to pull yourself up in our society. That's a pretty basic thing, but we can extrapolate it further to things such as opening savings accounts, starting a 529 college fund, etc. Many of these things are taught to middle/upper income children that poor/low income children never get to learn until they manage to come across it themselves at a later stage in life. Knowledge such as this doesn't just fall into people's laps, and it's often not taught in schools. Thus, the well-to-do have already educated their kids on not only how to make money but to keep it, while the poor who don't have enough to save aren't ever able to teach their children to do so.

Now, you always have people who break out of the mold, but simply being smart can't solve a lot of social and economic problems.