I hope and pray they are too Helen. Equality and mutual respect, fair treatment and lack of prejudice/racism are all very important to me.
I was always appalled at the apartheid in S Africa, and a terrible conversation with a white South African couple (we cleaned the house of their daughter, and they came to UK on a visit) showed me just how deeply-rooted these attitudes are. They seemed to view my black husband as a sort of lowly-paid underling. This was in Norfolk, where we've met with very little racism, if any.
Of course, when any group of people is downtrodden and badly treated, they will harbour their anger and resentment, then it will all burst out in violence and vengeful acts.
So the perpetrators will reap what they've sown.