You're pretty much describing my dad in the first paragraph (but he is of Irish descent). He's done very well for himself. As have thousands of others who've had to fight for everything they've earned. But we'll keep making excuses, and more excuses (that never ends well by the way).I'm sure that if you were born in an area with endemic poverty, had parents who had to work multiple jobs and were hardly at home, needed to get your own jobs during school to help the family pay the bills while also helping care for younger children, went to massively underfunded schools where they struggled to keep teachers, and faced systematic discrimination based on your skin colour, you would find it easy to escape poverty.
And sorry to burst your racialized bubble but poor whites have many of the same barriers keeping them from escaping poverty. Only difference is Bubba Rae from West Virginia can put on a suit and tie, speak like he was from New York and fake his way around it.

