Racial prejudice is a product of fear and envy, and when converted into a social construct it is intended to ensure that the targets conform to the religious or cultural supremacist prejudices of the practitioners. Conflict emerge in societies when targets refuse to go along with the order.

Where we have to start off in our examination of this is from the point of origin. Where it began. How it began. In which cultures it found residence, and was applied as a social construct. We cannot ignore thousands of years of enculturation where beliefs in genetic superiority and inferiority based on color or membership in an ethnic grouping are handed down generation to generation. There is a great reluctance to examine racism from this perspective, because then it forces too many to come to grips with their history and present, and removes the wall of protection they hide behind.

You are not born racist. You are not born with hate. You are born with a clean slate. However, if the culture from which you emerge is steeped in religious belief systems of human superiority and inferiority, either in strict doctrine or by interpretation, then your reality is more than likely to be skewed by prejudices. And if your norm is that you are better than them because they are what they are, any objection from them to this order of things becomes offensive, to the point where it is even termed to be racist. And that is an irony.