There are many of the favored race in America, that can’t stand losing, and don’t like to play fair. So then, when some other race, considered to be inferior to that favored race, is somehow able to outproduce them, make more money than them, own more land than them, or own a better business than them, some of those of that favored race, are going to take exception to such, and thereby are only too willing to take the law into their own hands.
The narrative that America likes to propagate, is that the blacks so lynched, were lynched primarily because they were accused of having ravished white women, or something very similar to that; on the other hand, in regards to the Japanese that were interned at the beginning of World War II, these Japanese families, found themselves, based solely upon their race and nothing more, being rounded up by governmental forces and thereby forcefully removed from their own homes and businesses, in order to be relocated into distant internment camps, against their will, because they were seen as being a clear and present danger to national security, even though, they were American citizens. The full truth in regards to these matters is far more nuanced and far more complicated than most will admit to; of which, in reality, a meaningful amount of those so lynched, as well as the more compelling reason of why Japanese were interned, really comes down to money, and the lust for ill-gotten gain by the favored race.
Those that are minorities, have it hard enough trying to get ahead in this country, but even when they have every disadvantage thrown at them, there are still going to be some of them that are able to rise above their given circumstances to actually become successful, primarily through their dedicated hard work and strong efforts. To see this, happen then, for some of those of the favored race, is going to be a distinctly “hard pill to swallow,” because those of that favored race that have not been successful, and that therefore resent the success of that which they believe is inferior to them, is going to be considered by them, as unacceptable. Further to the point, when there are a significant number of those of the favored race that feel the same way about this, or can be riled up to believe such, the end result is surely going to be some sort of injustice, which is exactly what lynching and internment so represents.
There are lots of people, that just want the money, or the position, or the power, simply because they believe that they have an implicit right to it; and when they find that their desire for what they believe that they are born to have, is in the hands of an unfavored party, then they are going to do whatever needs to be done to rectify the situation to their favor; for their numbers, their weapons, and the justice, so of, is pretty much all on their side, or if not, will be, with some heated persuasion.
As they say, when in doubt, “follow the money,” and by doing so, one will find, far more often than expected, that behind all the hue and cry about keeping this person in their place, or similar; is that, in the end, it’s really about the money, and always was.