"There is no such thing as white racism, but there is plenty of non-white racism to go around" [View All]

This is an insidious idea from those that promote white privilege through the hatred of non whites, and it's been around for quite a long time. They use inflammatory language to rally the white working class to defend themselves from perceived threats.

We've seen this in the past: "So-called Civil rights people like, Martin Luther King are communists, and if they get their way, gangs blacks will rape our white women at will."

We see it today: "Gangs of dangerous Mexican criminals are crossing borders, stealing our jobs and killing white ranchers and New Black Panthers! New Black Panthers"

Fox News is the forefront promoter, encouraging white fear, depicting a black president as some kind of communist black separatist with an agenda to make white people pay for their sins.

Most Republicans, although they're not the biggest cheerleaders of this strategy, are simply turning a blind eye and disavowing any knowledge that such a thing is going on, only because they stand to gain politically from a white wave of backlash against a "racist" black president.

It's a cynical combination of dirty politics and exploitation of national anxiety about race.

Because of it everyone is walking on glass and trying not to get cut, from the President on down.

The people who are behind this are the worst enemies of racial and class justice in this country. Because, if they keep most good people fearful and unsure, these promoters of white privilege and hatred can stop people who have more in common than uncommon from coming together and working to make all of our lives better.

Qui bono?

When the fear mongers and distorters of the truth have their successes, not you and I.