Do people still seriously see them as equals? Sure, they shouldn’t be treated rudely but they are in no way equal. Just look at their continent, it’s a complete disaster. They refuse to use it for agricultural reasons, or they don’t know how to. Their skulls are a completely different shape, and their brains less developed. They don’t even have any Neanderthal ancestors. They are a straight offshoot from the Homo-Erectus. Every other race is a hybrid breed composing of Neanderthal and the Homo-Erectus and thirty thousand years of evolution.
Even their language is primitive. Sure, there are some very successful black people, but that doesn’t account for them as a whole.