If it's currently a hot button issue, despite the neutrality of each individual word, then it's provocative. If we don't mean to be confrontational, we could express the same sentiments differently, explaining how singling out different races is counter-productive. Our local govt just dedicated a plaque to foreign workers, that said they were "inequitably subjugated", the trendy new white guilt narrative. It sounded as if white guilt was the objective, rather than praising the foreigners.