Anecdotal evidence is really not a good way to back up an argument. Feelings don't equal the stats.
First example: 2003 Field Experiment showing stark results in hiring practices among prospective white and black citizens (
http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873.pdf)
Second example: "Who Are The Unemployed" (
https://tcfdotorg.atavist.com/who-are-the-unemployed)
Third example: "Racial, Gender wage gaps persist in U.S. Despite some progress (
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...age-gaps-persist-in-u-s-despite-some-progress). This is a really interesting article and does cite a lot of potential reasons outside of racial composition that could explain some of the gaps, but it still leaves a reasonable gap once most other factors are accounted for:
It has been brought up before, but one of the best ways (in my opinion at least) to figure out what can be done would be to look at the differences between Asian and Black cultures. They are obviously significantly different in the historical background as to how/why they assimilated/immigrated to America in the first place, and that explains a lot of the gap, but obviously not all of it either.
What makes Asians so successful in America, while Blacks tend to not be as successful (based on wages, employment, economic factors)?