If I may, I'd like to share something I've observed about white racists in the south. Obviously there are significant differences, but it may go some distance toward showing the baseless and destructive (for everyone) fear that is in the hearts of the most ignorant. If I may simplify, it's far easier to hate than to say "thank you for contributing so much, and at such a great cost":
"...once again the “racist white America” aspect must accept the harsh truth, that yet again “white” America owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to a hated, “foreign”, dark-skinned race.
Of course the south hates and resists “Obamacare”. It forces countless generational racists to consider how they are to explain to their children that they need to turn to something vitally important, yet provided by a caring and helpful (hopeful) Black man. Something that no white man had been able to provide in decades of effort. Easier to pretend it doesn’t exist by simply eliminating it through choosing a so-called ‘leader’ promising to do just that.
In that context, how might people seeing themselves as a “ruling class”, lacking in education and insight, not simply find it easier to hate a race that makes the racial majority of a nation look and feel inferior, repeatedly and historically. Hate is far easier than for southern racists to find it within themselves to grow in humanity and personal responsibility."
Thank you for reading. I hope this may have provided a trace of insight.