Proof There Is No Racism in America

I see that Koreans are rapidly turning white. In this, they follow the Japanese, who were declared white by the old apartheid government of South Africa. In this they follow a path once trod by the Italians, the Irish, and the Jews.  All used to be “non-white” or the equivalent in the popular mind. There were Irish slaves, and signs saying “No Irish Need Apply.” Today, the Irish are considered generically white, as white as anyone, and the Jews perhaps “ultra-white.”

From this it is obvious that “non-white” is not a racial designation at all. It is a euphemism for something else, something more like a class distinction. If an ethnic group becomes prosperous, this makes them “white.” So “non-white” essentially poor. 

But this is not a class distinction in the Old World sense, either. In class societies, there is little or no mobility. You remain in the class you were born into, regardless of prosperity or personal effort. This has obviously not been so for many Irish, Italians, Japanese, or Jews. 

And it also does not quite mean “poor”; for there is indeed a class of “poor whites.” 

To be non-white, it seems you must be poor, and belong to a group that seems to have a strong independent identity and stands apart from the cultural mainstream.

So there is no racism in North America; and perhaps in the West generally. Blacks have not been discriminated against; nor have Canada’s First Nations. If they have remained “non-white,” while other groups have moved into the mainstream, the reason must be found elsewhere.

The problem is first, that these groups are chronically poor, generation after generation. Secondly, they have persisted in seeing themselves as distinct and apart, with their own culture, rather than integrating with the cultural mainstream. Segregation is the problem, but it is self-imposed.

And as their poverty is not due to discrimination, the fact that they are chronically poor suggests some flaw in their chosen culture. Not hard to see this if you listen to “gangsta rap.” Or if getting an education is considered “acting white” or cultural genocide.