Why do Racist White people try to justify the evil in them?

The issue of racism is a very tricky one. Racism is ingrained into the psyche of groups of people through society in general and the media. The images you see on TV, the internet, and the books people read portray negative stereotypes of some while portraying positive stereotypes of others thereby giving certain groups a false sense of superiority. Most people don't want to believe they are so gullible as to fall for this type of brainwashing so they convince themselves that they couldn't possibly have fallen victim to it or that it doesn't exist. When a person fails to recognize their behavior it exacerbates the problem. Denial is the biggest problem in overcoming racism. The David Duke era of the Ku Klux Klan has succeeded in their rhetoric of convincing the ones in power that they aren't racist and that black people are racist for calling them out on racism. Reverse psychology in the simplest form, but it worked on a m of simple minded people. There are some people that even believe that black people came willingly to the US as slaves and were treated well by their slavemasters and all whites since. I guess they never heard of Rosewood. There are people that would have you believe that the civil rights movement was a white man's movement. Dr. King couldn't possibly have had anything to do with it. There are even some that would have everyone believe that the holocaust never existed but was a mere fabrication by the Jews. The biggest purveyors of racism are whatever race is in power. The "racism" they claim other races have is in reality a reaction to the racism they have experienced.