[J-Fleming]

I would offer that it’s more complex than the ‘white-racist-evil plus non-white-antiracist-virtue equals a particular right to one’s loyaly’ dialectic you’ve presented us with. Asians out-perform whites in education consistently. As a ‘minority’, aisians are less reticent about the losses they incur from affirmative action. Since long prior to quotas, African Americans focused hate and even violence upon Asians, believing that they rob the black community of opportunity. Mexicans, like many Asians, emerge from greater material hardship than African Americans do, and so consider them to be undue complainers. As a white person, although it’s considered wrong to mention it, I frequently find myself subject to hate from all three: Mexicans think all whites in the city are gay, African Americans think all whites are gay child molesters, and Asians think we’re all ignorant barbarians undeserving of what we’ve got. Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are divided, and the list goes on. Whites similarly cannot be lumped together as simple racists. In the aftermath of 9/11, a racially motivated attack on a mostly white country that accounted for 17% of the murder rate that year, the backlash against Arab Americans spiked to a level half of, but proportionate to, what jews experience normally before returning to pre 9/11 levels within two weeks. About 400 incidents in total, the majority of which consisted of verbal exchanges and simple vandalism. the only arabs deported have been those illegally in the country with false or insufficient documentation. Before the week was out, our white, therefore nessesarily racist, president held an interfaith vigil on the steps of the Washington Mosque pleading for tollerance, presumably from other white racists. To be sure, there are genuine white racists, but as you pointed out, the last four decades of antiracist awareness has been focussed on reforming whites in particular, leaving what’s left of white racism safely closeted while one sees little regret or restraint amongst black, arab, asian and latino racists. It’s not as simple as whites vs. non-whites and I don’t understand why one would want it to be so. Black racists and arab racists share anti-semitism despite arab exploitation of africans via the slave trade that continues to this day. But then, jew-hatred has again become popular among ‘open-minded’ whites as well. Perhaps that’s where you’ll find the battle lines are truly drawn.

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Name : J-Fleming, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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