It's my belief that you will acually have a better chance.
Companies should idealy recruit the best person for a job regardless of race/colour/creed/sex ect. Sadly companies cannot be trusted to do this so they are leagally bound to.
It's a sad state of affairs that people are not employed on just on their skills/merits but to also to meet quota's and as stated above to make the company look good.
My advice is to go ahead and start your training. It's hard work and fun but the jobs are few and far between.
BB