A lot to think about here and I only have speculation. One thing to think about is that perhaps the white people who came to the Americas had been christianized and had lost their land-based spirituality. That is a sort of dislocation that made them hungry for something that was lost.

Another thought is that white people are hurt in all the predictable ways but they had access to technology that allowed them to act out their distress patterns in harmful ways. This is Jared Diamond’s hypothesis in his book Guns, Germa, and Steel.

I might say that capitalism and private property were “technologies” that promoted the accumulation of wealth which led to unimaginable atrocities. This is Kendi’s theory that race was invented to justify racism. So when race-based slavery and exploitation started happening they needed to invent race to explain it. Race then is a sort of technology to justify exploitation.

If advantages were conferred with technology and genocidal taking of land and people, then those advantages were compounded over time like interest.

So yeah, white people are hurt like everyone else but they had/have access to inherited wealth and power due to original ownership of technology. This wealth and power mean that their distress patterns are more harmful than others. In our cocounseling practice we call those “oppressor patterns” and those are actions we are most likely to not want to work on. It is easier to work on places where we have been hurt or play the victim role. But an oppressor pattern is often the result early hurts - like the other side of the coin- and for the good of people around us we need to work on that side of the coin too,

Like I said, I don’t really know so this is just thoughts on your question.