Could someone please explain why the roots of racial and ethic antagonism lie in economic inequality and conflict?
I’ll assume ethic was supposed to be ethnic. Whites believed blacks and Asians to be inferior because they were never given an opportunity. They just figured “Well, non-whites can never succeed anyway, so we don’t need to pay them or educate them. The money and education has more purpose with us.” And because non-whites had much less money and education, they had very little to invest, assuming they even knew how. Whites really didn’t feel any hatred of non-whites until they began to respond to economic inequality, normally through theft. Whites just felt non-whites were inherently inferior, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Non-whites obviously resented white power, and once non-white crime began rising exponentially, whites started hating non-whites back.
