African American

I struggled against this with my son, mightily. It was all around us in the air in Southern Illinois, and he picked it right up. By the time he was grown up, it was mostly gone. He even fell in love with a Chinese woman, although they later broke up. Still, he sometimes comes out with some of those old ideas. My daughter seemed somewhat less affected.

I suspect that "white" people have some neurological problem that makes us all tense and jittery. Those with no gift for introspection naturally look for the source of their irritation outside themselves, and strike out irrationally. We who have some kernel of self understanding face a never ending struggle to soothe, counsel, and control ourselves . And then there is all the misinformation accumulated over the past thousand years or so, all designed to consolidate the power of the most aggressive "white" people. Notice I have that word in quotes. We are not really white. We have various skin tones, just not very melanin rich. Big deal. Only got me tons of sunburns and then skin cancer.