Sometimes you guys act so put upon by this whole race thing. It's not that hard

Ok, first off individuals are racist not institutions anymore. If someone has been racist to you, now you can sue them for all their worth.
I haven't seen an actual act of racism for most of my life.
Why would I have to take a 'genuine interest' in anyone. That sounds more like special treatment to me. They've been through nothing historically. Most people today have never experienced racism, and when they have its come from individuals. I am not responsible for other people behavior.
I've been against the demoncrats from the start, so I have advanced a cause that affects them (#BLEXIT).
Politically correct culture is against everyone, you just don't understand it, yet.
See a lot of people that are in the demoncrat party have been conditioned to see everything as racism.
You know that guy that frowned at you, yeah, he wasn't racist. He didn't like your shirt. That promotion you were passed up for, had nothing to do with racism. It was because someone else was a better worker. etc...etc...

I agree with you Jim Crow ended, and U.S. employers and institutions are no longer allowed to be racist, under the law. (Individuals still can be racist since we do not literally police their thoughts, nor should we.) However, I think you are overlooking some other issues.

Black families are poorer than white families overall: much poorer. Being poorer consigns them to cheaper homes, in poorer neighborhoods with a smaller tax base and worse schools. Worse schools translates into fewer educational opportunities, in a society where education levels and credentials are paramount. That means they can't compete for the best jobs. If they can't compete for the jobs, they stay trapped in poverty. And the cycle continues.

I'm not saying any of this is *actively* racist, but these are echoes of the state-backed racist policies that ended decades ago. Blacks were not much allowed to build up family wealth under Jim Crow, and certainly not under slavery.

The bigger issue is that our 21st-century economy just doesn't work for people anymore and the ladder of social mobility has kind of fallen off.

I would consider an example of "Advancing a political cause" in this context to mean advocating for increased funding for public schools, or giving families in poor inner-city neighborhoods (regardless of race) vouchers to move their kids out of poorer school districts. I believe you can design policies in race-neutral ways that will still benefit both black folks and poor white folks, and that is fine. You're still helping black people at that point.

I don't think that supporting #BLEXIT qualifies as actually helping them. I've seen no evidence that blacks are abandoning the Democratic Party in droves. Sure, you can point to a black Republican here and there but the Democratic Party has many more black people in every level of leadership.

Some of that is due to the culture a majority of black people pursue: Rap Culture where you sell drugs, get arrested, get a rap sheet and you are considered a powerful person. When in reality you can't get a job and are supposed to run out on your woman as soon as she's pregnant.

I personally say hi to black people in suits or polo shirts all day, but when I see a black person sagging their pants wearing a wife beater shirt under a black hoodie with a bulge in their pocket that looks like a gun or a bag of drugs. I usually cross to the other side of the street.
It doesn't help that the CIA subsidized the drug trade under Clinton and pushed rap culture for years.

Education has little to do with getting the 'best jobs' its more about the people you know. Public education is so bad right now that people are taking their kids out of the public schools and either home schooling them or private schooling them. Our educational system is well funded and each school gets plenty of money to teach the students. We spend around $3000 more per student than other countries that have higher marks in education. http://www.facethefactsusa.org/facts/money-cant-buy-genius/

The main issue is that black people and other minorities are taught to see everything through the lens of racism.

When someone doesn't smile at them, it might be because that person doesn't like their personality or felt slighted by them, but the first thing that's going to go through their mind is that person is racist. Because they are taught to evaluate everything as racist or not racist and then they are told everything is racist. Like fake smiling at a minority is racist and not smiling is racist. So when I fake smile at someone because I don't want to make them feel bad or burden them with my problems, I'm now racist.

One of the studies bandied around here shows 33% of black people have swapped to support Donald Trump. Now that's anecdotal but I assume at least some of them have moved to the Republican party.