I think people don't understand how racism can become second nature to people. Like a woman calling the police on a young black girl selling lemonade on the sidewalk.
Or a young boy playing with a toy pistol in park and then getting gunned down by the Police without any warning at all because someone saw the little black boy and thought he had a real gun.
Or some police officer walking into the wrong apartment and just outright killing the black man who was sitting on his own couch eating ice cream while watching TV, and then she lied to her own precinct and tried to say that the black man had threatened her. Lucky the evidence showed that he had his frigging ice cream cone in his hand when he died and that he hadn't even gotten off the couch.
Or some woman calling the police to report that several African american people were causing problems in her neighborhood. The police show up, the people were having a frigging barbecue in a place where they were allowed to have barbecues. Lucky in this case the police just went over and confirmed that the white woman was harassing the people in the park and they told her to go home or they would charge her with harassing people. Technically they should probably have charged her with making a false report, but in this case I think the police just wanted to de-escalate things.
This type of racism isn't even out in the open, it's just become so much part of some people's day to day lives that they are racist without even thinking about it. They live in this fear that "the other" is out to get them and they make false police reports, they jump at every shadow around a building, and they assume that somehow every single black person around them is a threat to their life. It's allowing the fear of "the other" to get so severe that they lose all sense.
To me the mutants have existed with this escalating fear. I can imagine there is a Fox News in the United States in the Marvel Universe. I bet they spend 24 hours a day showing scenes of people being hurt by a mutant, over and over and over. They stoke the fear, they have commentators come on and say that mutants are going to kill everyone or take over the United States, they tell people to buy guns so they can protect themselves from the inevitable mutant civil war that is coming. Some of the politicians jump on the bandwagon because the hate and fear gets them votes so they stand on their podiums and tell their constituents how they are going to go to Washington and stop these mutants from destroying the way of life for god fearing Americans. They are going to be warriors of God and purge these dirty mutants out of our country and protect good hard working Americans from these dirty SJW mutants who are constantly preaching for equality and taking our social assistance money and our food stamps and our jobs! You know that construction company in town, I heard they hired some mutant who could replace 10 humans because she was so strong. Mutants are taking our jobs from good god fearing American men and women, they are evil, they are sent by Satan to take away our livelihood and our god fearing nation and our guns!