Cross Post from GDP: What issues, specifically, would end racism in the US?

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46. The end of whiteness. Nothing less.

No doubt lots of people look at that and think "the extermination of white people", but that's a deliberate misreading of what I'm saying. The end of whiteness, of "The Dream", as Coates calls it. We can ameliorate until the cows come home, but as long as there is such a thing as "a white person" in the US, it's a losing game.

The US is the Great Bleach of the World. It's where non-white people go to become white. It happened with Jews, it happened with the Irish, it happened with Slavs, and before you say "their skin is white, though!", consider that it happened with East Asians and is happening with South Asians now (or was until 9/11), and for that matter it happened with the Lebanese (at least the Christian ones) decades ago.

America can be a land with "white" people, or a land without racism. One of the two.