#blacklivesmatter racism is a human problem

I'm no anthropologist, but I suspect it has an inherent human element. Humans are tribal creatures, and I think there's an inate tendency to see those in the tribe as good and to fear those from outside the tribe. The difference is that in white European cultures it tends to have become institutionalised, and European countries have historically used their greater levels of technology after the Industrial Revolution to give full rein to their views on racial superiority.