And still a black person in the US earns 60% of what a what a white worker with similar qualification earns.
And on average an Asian person earns more money than a Caucasian person in the US. Race is only one of a multitude of factors that explains the wage gap. For example, one study finds that black people, particularly black women, choose majors in the social sciences whereas Asians choose majors related to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), which have more vacancies as well as higher salaries.
The chances you get killed by a gunshot also rise by as much as 100% depending on the state you live in among various other inequalities.
The majority of homicides in the US are intraracial, which means that white people kill white people and black people kill black people.
I don't know why you're talking about opportunity though, just because you got lucky.
Albeit I am very certain that some luck was involved, research demonstrates that most first generation immigrants experience upward social mobility after moving to the US.
I don't see how it's easier to get an education and thus an opportunity in the US vs Germany when over here school education for free is the right of every citizen and you don't either get denied of left with an insane debt when you're sick or need hospital care.
You must be referring to secondary education. Attending elementary, middle, and high school in America is free and required by law.
As far as education and socialized healthcare are concerned, they are free in Germany because because income taxes can be as high as 50%, which is why many blue-collar workers in your country engage in "Schwarzarbeit", or working under the table to avoid paying taxes, so they can have more money for themselves and their families.
A disadvantage of a free secondary education is massive competition among college students and high unemployment rates for certain graduates.
Nonetheless, I have been a critique of the high cost of the American education system as well as the healthcare system. Ultimately, people can vote and decide in what type of society they would like to live.
It's a rigged game not a land of opportunity. For every Will Smith there's so many thousands of people that grow up in ghetto neighbourhoods and end up in jail trying to feed themselves by the only means they have.
The American dream is a roulette table where your win condition is not working hard, it's working hard and not being born black.
According to Walter Williams, a renowned professor of economics at George Mason University, if you combine the wealth of all black people in the US, they would be in the 25 richest countries in the world as calculated by GDP per capita, which, again, is inconceivably impressive considering the racism and discrimination that they faced not to long ago.
I quoted your initial post in order to participate in an honest debate and present facts and context based on research and anecdotal evidence. I feel all you have done is race bait and regurgitate far left talking points.