I think the white moniker is a convenient mask for some blacks and others to use when it suits them.
It really hasn't been about white for some time now. It has been about wealth and privilege, and there hasn't been any absolute Jim Crow power in some decades.
Black, Latinos, Chinese, Japanese, and others have been admitted into the elite caste and have wielded social and cultural power in America without great opposition. Admittedly, the poor are disadvantaged by social friction between cultures, which has been mostly the legacy of slavery.
But, on balance, the Chinese, and Irish, and Polish were brought in as a sub-class too, and they have progressed, as now Latinos are doing rapidly. The blacks I have known who have succeeded at it have not necessarily done so against all odds, or even greater odds than very poor whites face. They have done so because they believed it was possible and because they persisted.
Various European groups have begun in slums and squalor here, and they have progressed beyond it to be included, and not all have given up their ethnic and cultural identity to do so.
I won't make excuses for the atrocities of the past, but the whole story is not being told here. The black race is no more sacrosanct than any other when it comes to oppression, genocide, and accountability. It wasn't the Europeans who were rounding up each other in the 16th century and selling them to American plantation owners -- it was the African people who hunted each other down and enslaved them and SOLD them. Does that make them worse or inferior? No, but it doesn't make them victims only, either.
Endlessly playing the victim card is a losing game, by definition, and only serves to institutionalize the permission to fail. Racial tensions, both legitimate and gratuitous, will always be with us in some degree, but in the end, you have to ask yourself if it is really a hard stop to the opportunity and progress that has been seen since the 60's.
I have experienced racism from various minorities, and it wasn't blocking my path to education or vocation, but it was there nonetheless, and had the desired effect in that it made me unwelcome and disrespected without being bothered with knowing who I am. It is never right to do it, so promoting it at any turn is a giving up and return to tribalism. Our culture isn't as fractured as it is discussed to be, or at least not as much as it is by economic caste, and wealth is NOT limited to European-descended groups here.
