For 500 years, they've exploited their fellow man and plundered the planet.
It's time they rein themselves in
This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
The future of life on the planet depends on bringing the 500-year rampage of the white man to a halt.
For five centuries his ever more destructive weaponry has become far too common.
His widespread and better systems of exploiting other humans and nature dominate the globe.
The time for replacing white supremacy with new values is now. And just as some whites played a part in ending slavery, colonialism, Jim Crow segregation, and South African apartheid, there is surely a role whites can play in restraining other whites in this era.
Beneath the sound and fury generated by GOP presidential candidates, Fox News, website trolls, police unions and others, white people are becoming aware as never before of past and present racism.
...The mother of all grand bargains is the U.S. Constitution which accommodated slavery in several ways, including the notorious three-fifths clause.
...Katznelson is white.
So am I.
So are many others now writing and speaking honestly and openly about the enduring power of white racism.
That is valuable because it strengthens the idea that whites can come to terms with reality, past and present, as opposed to the myths we are encouraged to believe..."
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