of people they're supposed to be so superior to? Inferiority, guilt, shame...it's probably a nice mixture of all of those. The last thing it is would be superiority.

If you're superior, you don't feel a need to stack the deck via redlining, Jim Crow, systematic racism, all sorts of discrimination in employment, housing, education, access and opportunity etc. You'd just be flat-out superior. You stack the deck when you're not confident you'll get the outcome you desire if things are equal.