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Well, it goes back to Maslow's hierarchy of needs: https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html When people are hungry they need to eat, not read. But after they are fed, books are extremely important to move further in life.A lot of African Americans, and minorities in general, would disagree with you there.
And there's also the example of Andrew Carnegie. He donated a lot of his fortune to creating libraries, which he hoped would help the poor. The poor, however, made it very clear that they preferred food over books.