Personally I think that color is much less a factor than people think, historically. Powerful people throughout all time have used ANY excuse (race/ancestry, social class, tribal groupings, even geographic location, profession, orientation, and most significantly religion) to blame, subject, enslave, slaughter, dismiss and otherwise be horrible to those they perceive to be lesser.
It's true that some groups tend to be in power, and thus in a position to be horrible, more often than other groups, but there are plenty of people with (relatively) very little power and influence and STILL choose to be horrible to others, so that doesn't really mean much.
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Personally I think that color is much less a factor than people think, historically. Powerful people throughout all time have used ANY excuse (race/ancestry, social class, tribal groupings, even geographic location, profession, orientation, and most significantly religion) to blame, subject, enslave, slaughter, dismiss and otherwise be horrible to those they perceive to be lesser.
It's true that some groups tend to be in power, and thus in a position to be horrible, more often than other groups, but there are plenty of people with (relatively) very little power and influence and STILL choose to be horrible to others, so that doesn't really mean much.