You are correct and well thought out in this area. I’m not writing though from the perspective of my own individuality, as I do and can see the difference between Japanese and Chinese, Indian and Indonesia. My daily interactions are with multiple American ethnicities and with people globally, so I’m fortunate there to have international experience and travels. My good friends have interracial children from completely different backgrounds, married in America and the child are mixed culture/race/ etc.
Rather I am taking the approach that s more generic on purpose. The people in power and the power structure is white and built on that belief in a ‘unified’ ethnicity, event though that ‘ethnicity’ of Europe itself fluctuated over its history to include groups at first regretted and not included into the Anglo-Protestant background —like the Irish, Italians or Polish. These were the three dominant ethnic groups where I was born in western New York, and they all had lingering names or the other that implied some combination of “dirty” and “stupid.” The working class town had no black Americans, but as they internally emigrated to Buffalo, they were forced into the inner city, just as the Irish-Italians-Polish were “forced” into the working class towns. I later lived in the village, which was white color as made by “original” settlers founded in 1787 or so. The point though is that that village group remains, as does the lingering status of living in that village, a status of privilege and wealth even if not entirely expensive. In fact the next ‘village” over is slightly more ‘elitist” even though is is just a couple lies away from the ‘inner city’ where the shooting takes place. But the lingering white status in many ways fossilized into laws and instructions that crystallized perceived differences that we live under. And that group has control of the power and purse strings to pull the country by. If it wasn’t for that fact, I wouldn’t pay attention to them.
Excellent commentary of your, and thanks for inspiring me to reflect and clarify on those key issues.
