Since no one else wanted to touch on this:
It's how the poor European immigrants, you know those evil white overlords of the universe, became successful and wealth.
Is this before or after the near genocide of the natives of the Americas and extraordinarily profitable slavery? Man, look at all that free land and eventual free labor to work those lands!
If we're going with after... How about the ridiculous exploitation of nearly every immigrant group that has made its way to America? Illegal or otherwise.
How about all that property that was snatched up and sold fairly cheaply by the government to wealthy landowners after we decided to toss a bunch of Japanese-Americans in intern camps? And since a lot of this was in California and Hawaii, all of that cheap land has more than paid for itself many many many times over just because of how valuable land in those states has become over the last 70 years.
The only reason the Asian-Americans recovered as well as they did from that massive hit is because after idiots got over the paranoia, their stereotypes reverted back to all Asians being submissive and super smart. The stereotype in of itself is a bad thing, but it's not as bad as being labeled a drug dealer or a thug based on skin tone.