Swing Era

The Swing Era played a huge role in the rise of African American music in the United States. White people always looked at black people as inferior to them, yet black people had better/more talents and more ways to entertain themselves and eventually entertain others. White people also always stole the black people's ideas. Since all these things happened between both races, why did the whites look at the blacks as different from them when it clearly seemed that the whites needed the blacks in almost everything they did? And if it weren't for black people, would the music that we listen to today still exist in our daily lives?