Well said. The vital thing for people to do if they want to achieve something positive is to look for what things they have in common with other people. They have many things in common.

The healthy mind looks for what it has in common with someone else, and it finds a great deal. That way lies friendship and good communication.

The unhealthy mind looks first (and often only) for what is different about someone else, finds just a few things, and prepares to either have an argument or fight a war over them...ignoring the many, many much more meaningful things the two have in common.

You're quite right that there are forces at work today which capitalize on racism and do not want it to go away. They likewise capitalize on gender-based conflict, nationalism of an aggresssive sort, victimhood, class warfare, every sort of division, resentment and fear. They use it to motivate people into supporting wars, and they use it to get themselves elected and to hold power. It's the classic age-old game of divide and conquer, played by a few powerful men on billions of reactive people, and it's happening all over the world.