I think, number one, we are not going to eradicate poverty. That is just not going to happen anytime soon, no matter what the initiatives are or whether they are towards 2017 or not.
But the point you make, which I think the museum speaks to—I love cannons—is that when you have, as you so rightly point out, a racialized level of poverty, that level of poverty is also reflexive and connected to how people view those people.