We have created a tribal victim identity industry in North America, whereby various groups compete for status on the ladder of oppression. An interesting column in the NY Times ('Trump's Empty Culture Wars') notes that during the first decade or more of the millennium, and before the recent advent of more a strident black victim advocacy movements like BLM and the corresponding emergence of a white tribalist response, to which in the latter case Trump has hitched his cart, a solid majority of American blacks along with their white compatriots believed race relations in the U.S. were either good or very good. The column notes the loss of a middle ground, where positive change has occurred, among two opposing sides in a polarized and sterile culture war that serves narrow interests on both extremes while obscuring and thwarting broader societal progress.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/opinion/trumps-empty-culture-wars.html