Maybe this will help you a little bit. I am white. I happen to believe that Afican-Americans have the most to be angry about in terms of the history of abuse that they endured. What you may not have heard about, especially living in the South, is that there was considerable discrimination against many white "ethnic" groups. My father told me that he was very grateful for the Black Civil Rights Movement. He explained that, in the place where he worked, he would never be promoted to the level of a supervisor because of his ethnicity and his religion. He said that applied to lots of his co-workers of a variety of white ethnic background. Only after blacks won the right to get hired and also, to get "promoted" in the company, did things change for the ethnic whites.

My father said that he and his co-workers "rode on the coat tails" of the Black Civil Rights Movement. Thanks to what Blacks achieved, he was eventually offered a chance to be a supervisor. (which he declined) When Jesse Jackson marched from Washington to Boston, my father went to stand for over an hour on Route One in New England to be able to try and shake Jesse's hand. And he got the chance to do that, and told me he said "Thank you. Because of your movement, I, MYSELF, have more rights than I would have had. That's what my father taught to me.