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You are raising the important issue of the relation of reforms to revolution. Yes, I agree that "rights" are an abstraction whose reality depends on the context. Rather than say that African-Americans had the "right" to full equality, anarchists say that we are committed to support their struggles for full equality. But this does not mean that struggles which used the language of "rights" are nothing but mistakes which strengthened the state. The Black mass movement of the 50s and 60s was under ideologies of "rights" ,calling on the national state to protect African-Americans, and relied on the Democratic Party. Yet, for all its weaknesses, it led to the destruction of legal racial segregation in a third of the U.S. (Jim Crow). This was a great victory, and despite its limitations, laid the basis for further struggles--as we have seen.