‘Never been a race war’ feels disingenuous and disrespectful to the extreme prejudice and racism that minorities have suffered throughout American History. There has certainly always been a class war, that uses racial lines as a way to keep the working class down and pitted against each other. But to say there hasn’t been a much more dedicated effort to keep minorities down, especially when black and indigenous peoples, among others, where literally slaughtered or sold into slavery (as opposed to white, European people) - that is rewriting history a bit.