There is a deep-rooted belief that because of racial prejudice, native Americans in the United States have never been able to get on in life. This myth is combined with the historic inability of African-Americans to make much progress either and both groups often attribute any failure to racial prejudice. The truth is, when both native Americans and African-Americans get on and stop bemoaning their misfortunes, they find that it is not racism which holds them back at all.
