The Grapes of Wrath - in a modern context

ubject: The Gapes of Wrath - in a modern context.

The airwaves are aflame with wrath towards the passenger of a Ryan Airline plane who verbally abused a woman in her 70s for not moving out of his way quickly enough.
Not being there one is left with an impression that the anger from the man was unreasonable and one has to question, why did he flip. Was it a 'hate crime' as many suggest, one of hatred toward a black person, purely because of the colour of their skin or was it anger due to other factors such as bad news, maybe financial, maybe matrimonial which caused him to spew out his frustration. No one was assaulted other than verbally but listening to the commentators and the spokespeople of various culturally sensitive groups one would think the Columbine School shooting had taken place. Shrill condemnation would underscore any description of it, a shrillness that is becoming all too recognisable as an alternative to a proper debate or an attempt to get to the bottom of this.
I know people in Bradford, Rotherham, Huddersfield who would feel that, if it were hate crime then the authorities have played their part in driving a wedge between all people.

 Adjem Choudary has just been released back into society. He carries with him a much greater venom than the guy in row 23 but our liberal principles get in the way of chucking Choudary out of the country because his following is so wide and entrenched.
A video of the police trying to cuff a young black man and his subsequent flight was caught on camera with the mostly black bystanders cheering him as he sped away, clearly a case of "them and us".
Prejudice is everywhere. The sound of a foreign language inflames those out of work poorly educated local white men who blame the foreigner for taking their jobs.

The ghettoisation of people of colour and the gang culture which grows from this separation and self identification of cultural disparity has only accentuated a them and us mentality.

If we had understood the roots of our current despair back then in the 1940/50s would we have done anything different, I doubt it since money was involved and rather than spend money to train our own young as well as spending on mechanisation, no it was easier to import from abroad.
So when we rush to condemn, pause a little and be a little less holy. Consider first the causes of acute discontent and whilst trying to remedy the situation give all parties an equal airing.