"If you are not white, you're black"

As I began to read the first paragraph of Sethi's essay, the conversation between Sethi and the Steve Riley really caught my eyes. They were having a conversation on how you are black if you are not white. I was actually shocked because referring to their conversation, there are so many more blacks compared to the number of whites in this country. America is a country of immigrants, most of their ancestors came from different countries to begin with. However, white-skinned immigrants were said to be superior than others because they are white and all others were considered black and they experienced racism throughout their life in America. As time has passed, racism has become less visible but it obviously exists. I have been wondering why a small number of whites always had superiority over all other so called black group(which is a majority group if you look at it by numbers). Black group outnumbers white group but there has been racism persisted throughout the time.
According to Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, racism is a matter of group power; dominant racial group is striving to maintain its systemic advantage and minorities are fighting to subvert the racial status quo. Just like most of the countries are dominated by a few superior groups, this country has a dominant group consisted mostly of whites to maintain the order of the country to prevent chaos. Even though the racism is minimized and racist activities are less seen in public, the very first Black president of this country receives the most racist attacks via cartoons and other means of actions (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/18/new-york-post-chimp-carto_n_167841.html). I truly think that people from the minority groups definitely have as much ability to thrive this country and I feel regrets that they do not get much chance and always have hidden obstacles to be take roles of a dominant group.