Why is it when a respected white person competes with a respected person of color, he/she finds the need to refer to his opponent as an animal. For example, "I saw the opportunity, so I tagged him" (hunting reference), and references to branding cattle (ownership).

Why do so many supposedly intelligent white people see brown people as animals? If they didn't believe it, they wouldn't be saying it. As they say, "you can't throw up what you haven't swallowed."