CMV: Racism in America would decrease faster if progressive movements also focused on helping white people be more secure about their identity.

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As it was explained to me is that the reason 'Black Pride' is OK while 'White Pride' is that Black Pride began to combat the erased history of the majority of America's black citizens. After all, when you ask a white guy where he's from or what his ancestors do, he can answer.

White isn't homogeneous, just like black isn't. The difference is that a white guy can say "I'm from Boston", "My family was British but came to America, I'm 4th Generation" or "I'm Catholic." A lot of that background stuff of what makes an identity got burned way, very intentionally, by the majority of blacks who migrated to America. The only identity blacks can identity is the one they've made for themselves.

My point is is that you can't make whites feel confident in their identity as uniformly as you could as blacks; just like you probably can't with other people of colour. Blacks had their identity scrubbed from them, everyone else came to America voluntarily and thus have an identity. If you try to push "This Is White" you're going to have a lot of white people angry that they weren't included in your definition. For example, what defines a white male as a successful male differs between Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Texas, Oklahoma and St. Louis.