Zumbi while I disagree that it's all about Obama - this entire country was color obsessed long before Obama - I do think a series on who is White in America is an excellent idea. The concept of white didn't exist until colonial governors in the early days of slavery started getting worried about white indentures and free people of color banding together and overthrowing them for the poor treatment, abuse, and oppression anyone who wasn't wealthy suffered. But even more than that, the history of white people in this country and how whiteness has changed tells a compelling story - when you get rich as a people you become 'white' but if you're an immigrant or powerless group you were deemed not white. White was code for real human male and everyone else was less than including females no matter their color. There's a reason the term poor white trash exists - it removes poor whites from being human (trash isn't human and isn't really white by the standards embedded in whiteness). I think if people who think they are white really knew what whiteness was a lot of things regarding this countries views on race would change for the better.
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