At the end of the article “On the Backs of Blacks” from Times, the author discussed that there is a pressing need to understand the “white interests” behind all the racial talks going on in the United States. An obvious white interest for racial talk is to achieve the feeling of a superiority among white people, which was mentioned by the author when Morrison talked about the Mark Twain story of Huckleberry Finn in which Morrison said the white person being described would not consider himself an American “without his glowing white mask”. There are, however, other possible reasons behind, and yet largely relevant to, the supremacy felt by white people. One such cause of such racial talk is the number of opportunities available in the United States. Although income growth has had an increase recently, the rapid modernization, including fast-developing technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI), has caused numerous job opportunities to disappear. Take the cotton industry for example, after the invention of GM crop by Monsanto and machines like improved gins and other technologies, there has been a significant reduction in the labor required for the cotton industry. In factories, more and more machines are replacing human labors, causing lots of job opportunities to disappear. There are almost infinite examples of such reduction in job opportunities, and this has inevitably led to more intense competition, which in turn causes some white people to, often times intuitively, use racial talk as a mean to keep black people out of the competition and establish quite an unfair advantage for themselves. Besides this, the competition for housing space might as well be another incentive for racial talk. With the black population becoming more and more prosperous in the past several decades, previous “white neighborhoods” and cities that are predominantly white are experiencing an influx of black population. Even though this is quite a natural process, it is also natural for former residences to feel the want to preserve where they lived in for a long time, which provides an interest for white people to utilize racial talk, again often non-deliberately, to “secure” their position. These all have to do with the sense of supremacy white people have enjoyed for the past two or three centuries; in the meantime, the black population is indeed part of the United States of America, and they do deserve their rightful place in the society. This is thus one of the most pressing issues right now to have a genuine intra-harmony within the people of the United States, and is in the same time one of the greatest challenges of the 21stcentury.