The history of America is written in a way that it is always about the white man, and the tales so told are typically from the perspective of the white man to thus give the overall impression that this is the white man’s land. While it is true that what we know as America was essentially brought into being by the white man’s ingenuity and effort, this was, though accomplished through the help of and upon the backs of those who were enslaved, oppressed, or ultimately reduced to living upon reservations.
We do live in a modern age in which there is more room to maneuver and be successful for those who have not been born of the favored race, which is good for those who express the belief that America represents a melting pot and is fairly open and accommodating to all those of various creeds, national origins, and different backgrounds. This is all to the credit of America, and for the most part, the trendline seems to be heading in the more inclusive type of direction in which all those who are its citizens are fairly accorded respect based upon the content of their character and not therefore on just their surface characteristics, which obviously would represent unfairness and injustice.
Yet, the one thing that needs to be recognized is that there is a significant part of the favored race which simply wants to not just turn the clock back, but believes wholeheartedly that things were better back then, when the white man need not respect the rights of any other race or those of the wrong religion, thereby signifying that by their whiteness, they were, by definition, superior to anyone else outside that domain, which thus brought comfort especially to those that were white but had little or nothing of merit to show for it and their inherent advantages.
Indeed, it has to be admitted that in any society in which a significant portion of such, insists upon comparing themselves to others, and thereby feel that it is their inherent right to be superior to all those that they believe were meant to be inferior to them, thereby signifies that they will not go quietly into the good night, because they will not accept this unacceptable changing of the guard. These are the type of people that halt progress because they just won’t let it go, since they feel a need to not just desire that those not of their race be put in their place, but also can’t stand to see any of them that are superior to them exist in comfort and respect.
Look, the bottom line is that all those that are expected to be better because of their birthright but somehow are not better have a very strong tendency to resent the success of those that haven’t been born with the same favoritism, because this reflects poorly on them, and makes them deeply resentful anytime that they see success outside of their race, which makes them to feel that they are a failure, which leads them to drink and drugs and all sorts of other ill behaviors because they cannot accept what they cannot accept.