Yes, to be honest, I wish it's that simple. In my teenage and early 20s, that was my view.
Then I saw the book, "Sovereign Individual" where the author pointed out that how the culture of African-American population has more in common with the larger American society than the Africans (of the black Africa) and yet their leaders pushed the African culture (of black Africa) on them. That was the starting point for me to notice how big the racial politics in US is.
Very true but when you make comparisons of ecomomic status of different ethnic-racial groups in US, you can't escape from the reality that here is a corelation between the race and economic status. If you are in their shoes, you would feel the anger too. (I was a minority and I can *try* to understand the feeling a bit but with us, there was a strong sense of racial and cultural idenbreasty and the discirimation was a form of payback out of resentment toward colonial rule and its upper clbutt.)
Needless to say, psychologists ot whatever-ists try to see why that is and the sense of racial idenbreasty is brought in. I have to run though I have some more to write.
