White Must Stop Pandering

White Americans seem oblivious to the fact that they will always be characterized as racist. Once, I attended a George Floyd protest, hoping to counter the nonsense of Black Lives Matter. Many black protesters were upset by the presence of a few white women — who were supporting their cause. One black man unleashed a torrent of abuse on a trio of white women. There were even people chanting that whites are aliens. Whites are suffering from a political form of “battered woman syndrome.”

Even when dismissed, white liberals write ridiculous articles blaming white Americans for most everything. For some, whiteness is innately racist, so there is nothing whites can do to cleanse themselves of their inherent racism. For some white politicians, policies only serve a purpose to the extent that they help or hurt black people. To get voters to oppose gun control, conservatives remind us of the perceived racist roots of gun control.

Blacks are more ethnocentric than whites, and according to a 2013 poll, a significant percentage of black Americans think that blacks are more racist than whites. If blacks uncritically think that whites are the enemy, there is little whites can do to ameliorate race relations. Black activists often argue that whites are the problem, so destroying white people is the sole route to progress. And yet, some whites reward blacks for treating them with hostility — which blacks will respond to, logically, by becoming more radical.