As I’ve said before on this forum, you have to start at the beginning. With elementary schools and parents. By the time they get to college, you can’t just stick them in schools they’re not qualified or prepared for and expect them to perform.
As far as Wilson goes, if we’re going to be like that about it, we’d have to rename everything named after most Americans who lived in his era and before:
The prevalence of the view that blacks and whites are equal is a relatively recent phenomenon here.
While slavery is obviously an atrocity, and while it’s easy for us to see that racism is wrong, to judge a person from 150 years ago by his views on race is not realistic.