John, I'm sorry to say that you're not hearing me. Other groups do not face "the same challenges." These other groups usually face much bigger challenges. This has been documented hundreds of times. Asians were not ever enslaved, for example. And they are not racially profiled today by the police. They are also allowed to live freely in mostly White neighborhoods. They can get mortgages. If they had been treated exacty as Black Americans are, or if they have had been overcome by racism and disease in the ways that Native American Indians have been, they would be doing very, very poorly.

Just look at Japan. There, people of Korean ancestry are stereotyped in much the same way that Black Americans are. And they have the same kind of negative life outcomes Black Americans have. Your argument is that the sucess sequence works. It doesn't even work THAT well for Whites (poor Whites have a VERY hard time escpaiing poverty). And it doesn't work as well for Asians as it does for Whites. It barely works at all for other minorities. Sometimes, it even backfires -- as it did when Texas Rangers killed and drove away many, many succesful Latinos in Texas in the early 1900s.