Second of all, in a country established on genocide of Native Americans now disposessed and exiled to bantustans ("reservations") and mass slavery of Africans, and in which nazi-style Jim Crow was daily life for many people still alive today, their children still subject to thousands of summary killings annually by the police and unjust imprisonment by the "Justice" Department in the tens of thousands, in a country where huge swathes of Mexico were annexed and Mexican people turned into minorities on their own ancestral lands, the peoples of Puerto Rica and polynesians in Hawaii outright colonised.....well, its quite a claim to suggest these are not "real life issues for real people".
First of all, no one is "white" really:
https://bannekerinstitute.fas.harvard.edu/files/bannekerinstitute/files/on_being_white.and_other_lies_baldwin_0.pdf
Second of all, in a country established on genocide of Native Americans now disposessed and exiled to bantustans ("reservations") and mass slavery of Africans, and in which nazi-style Jim Crow was daily life for many people still alive today, their children still subject to thousands of summary killings annually by the police and unjust imprisonment by the "Justice" Department in the tens of thousands, in a country where huge swathes of Mexico were annexed and Mexican people turned into minorities on their own ancestral lands, the peoples of Puerto Rica and polynesians in Hawaii outright colonised.....well, its quite a claim to suggest these are not "real life issues for real people".
Kudjoe, This is brilliant! You called out a very limited perspective for what it actually is.