>@jwbe – I only disagree with the somewhat “giving up” tone of your first sentence.
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you got this sentence wrong, it isn’t about giving up and also not about being fatalistic.
It’s just the reality.

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America went on war, and there was a majority of whites supporting it, a war in the fight ‘against terror’. The arrogant mentality in the belief of a Blitzkrieg, because Iraqis were considered backward and stupid as it seems, the arrogance with showing war on TV for bored Americans, a war because the white entitlement was hurt. The disbelief that America could be attacked, the disbelief that not everybody on earth loves the US and not everybody outside America, probably almost nobody, believes American lies white Americans are so busy believing.
Back then, with Bush’s words towards the rest of the world ‘you are either with us or against us’ and the flag waving hysterical Americans I understood how Hitler was possible. How masses can be so blinded and too few are trying to stop them, also nations. Because it is about money, resources and power and masses are easily manipulated. The West is united in a system of white supremacy but white anti-racists seem to fail to understand this.
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We are told that non-white nations with alleged nuclear weapons are the threat to the world and nobody could explain to me up to now why anybody should ‘trust’ the USA, the only nation on earth that actually dropped two atomic bombs, why should we ‘trust’ a nation where whites still celebrate their history in a way of fantasy that it is scary and which stations their military throughout the world.
Racism is not just a problem in the US, and the system of white supremacy is a problem world-wide which is more than ‘just’ racism.
And regardless how eager the West might be to ‘explore’ the universe if there is life outside earth, there only this planet regardless if we act in a way as if there are more. And yes I believe that for a white anti-racist trying to also understand the Eurocentric attitude towards nature also is important, understanding our own culture would be important and how deeply it impacts us while we try to combat the system. It is not possible to combat a system with ways that keep this system alive.
White anti-racists should understand that they don’t do it only for ‘the other’ but for all of us humans and life on earth.
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Considering the magnitude of ws, considering the pain we as a collective inflict on others, not only within our own nations but world-wide, how laughable becomes a white whose only interest is not to be considered a racist or to be considered a ‘good ally’ or wants to learn with all time needed for him/her until he/she will finally ‘get it’ or mostly not.
Victor Frankl: “Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
But ok, I think I am off topic probably.
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>jwbe – “where ‘minorities’ are being blamed and too many whites are again believing these lies.” Can you elaborate?
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I don’t understand what I should elaborate?

RE: substitutions/comparisons, for instance, I have heard some members of the gay community ask the question “why are Blacks (and in particular, Black men) so homophobic?” in a rhetorical manner (my response would be that a) homophobia is present in all races and b) homophobia is not a function of race, but more a function of religious attitudes and attendance of religious services. Perhaps I was off-base, but I saw at least some similarity between this question and the question that Dr. Feagin used at the end of his article (again, when vicariously removed from context and understanding that this was not Dr. Feagin’s intent).

@jwbe – the 88 in my nickname refers to the year 1988, IMO the greatest year in (recorded) music history.

It doesn’t make sense that individual whites want to be considered not racist or want to be considered a friend or ally and this becomes more important than the actual issue.
Nobody of all of us (white) anti-racists would truly have an idea how to stop a second Hitler. We can quickly judge those Germans back then how stupid or whatever they have been, not realizing that with a word-wide declining economy and a right with simple sounding solutions to ‘all problems’ becoming again more powerful today we are exactly again in a similar situation, where ‘minorities’ are being blamed and too many whites are again believing these lies.
And the only thing most whites can do is whining ‘I am not racist’ or something like that