[ACC25119]

If it grates you or any other ‘white’ person to be called that, I’d be more than happy to call you something else more appropriate. The fact is, ‘white’ is a label that most of you have collectively chosen to call yourselves. Notice that Tad referred to himself as ‘white.’ Neither of you being in the Southwest, I chose not to call you what ‘whites’ are more commonly called around here – the far more correct cultural label of Anglo. And I’ve half jokingly said to some of my colleagues that a more correct label for you would be ‘Europeans’ or even ‘Newcomers’ or ‘Johnny Come Latelies.’ Incidentally, you might be intrigued that some so-called ‘whites’ want, as you do, to change the label themselves. Check out http://www.racetraitor.org.

But you have a hard row to hoe. Part of why so many of you have chosen to call yourselves ‘white’ (no one non-white played any major part in that choice of a label, after all) is that many if not most of you HAVE chosen to think of yourselves as ‘white’ rather than any specific ethnicity within ‘whiteness.’ It may gall you to admit that, but it is true. ‘Whites’ as a homogenizing force have mostly turned that same force on themselves.

One final thing: your central premise for getting angry at me was utterly wrong and uncalled for. Notice how I repeatedly referred to what SOME whites in ONE area of the country were doing.

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Name : ACC25119, Gender : M, Race : Mexican and American Indian, City : Phoenix, State : AZ, Country : United States, 

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