May contends that people with racist attitudes share responsibility for violent racial acts in their society. Such acts arise out of a climate of racist dispositions, and those who share the dispositions share in moral responsibility for the acts.
     May distinguishes between persons who are responsible through negligence for injury done to another, those who are responsible through negligence but who by "moral luck" do not inflict injury on another, and those who are responsible by virtue of morally reckless behavior.
    May finds all three types of responsibility present in racially motivated harms. Even those who do not directly cause the harm share in a collective responsibility if their dispositions contributed to the climate that produced the harmful action.