Millions of the taxpayers of all ethnicities want to know when you are personally responsible for your own conduct rather than being victims in perpetuity with an entitlement attitude.  

You were successful in spite of your ethnicity; so was Trump's newly appointed cabinet officer, so was Secretary of State Colin Powell, so were millions of other black people. 

Ethnicity should not be either a crutch or an excuse.  

Unfortunately, that is what affirmative action and its ilk cause.  Public policy is affected by hundreds of variables; raising race to the pre-eminent status you seek is bigotry.