I was thinking of the Ubermensch and Untermensch of Nazi Germany. They turned their racial pride and sense of superiority into a license to kill those who they considered Untermensch. While acknowledging that one has racial or cultural traits that may be exceptional, it does not make your group overall superior to another. To think such is where the slippery slope to considering of them as less than human begins.
Kinship to those you have ethnic ties with is healthy. When you start thinking that others are not as good as you because they are not like you, genocide is right around the corner.
When the black civil rights movement changed from “all men are equal” to “we deserve special treatment” they initiated an American caste system which has been shown to be inherently evil. That kind of thinking, that some people need to be treated differently because of their skin color, is the root of racism, no matter what group it is aimed at.
Certainly disparate standards or treatment under the law meted out on the basis of race or ethnicity is always and everywhere wrong and un-American.
On this I fully concur.