Racism at the root of everything?

One of the aspects of the civil rights movements that made blood boil was this: Prior to those laws a middle-class black had to act subservient to the poorest white. That white person could claim, "At least I'm better than all those blacks." Then with the passage of the civil rights laws that lowest white could only claim superiority over the lowest black. And now we have a black president and a great number of white people are furious that a black man is officially above them. Perhaps all that noise about taxes, health insurance, the threat of taking away guns, and everything else that has conservatives foaming at the mouth is really about race, about having a black president.