Why do whites have to be "supreme" over others?

WHITE SUPREMACIST

Definition: A person who believes that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups, in particular black or Jewish people.

Their belief favors the maintenance and defense of white power and privilege.  White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine of scientific racism, and was a key justification for colonialism.  It underlies a spectrum of contemporary movements including neo-Confederates, neo-Nazism, and Christian identity.

White Supremacist thinking has been with us for many years. As an example, in an editorial about Native Americans and the American Indian wars in 1890, author L. Frank Baum (author of "The Wizard of Oz") wrote: "The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians."

 

We are all painfully aware of the hostility whites have held toward people of color and ethnicity. 

 

The America we know today is in the struggle of its life as it fights to understand how White Supremacists have been able to make so much progress, so deeply into our society, and into the critical workings of our government. 

It is like a snowball rolling down the hill, picking up more snow, and adding to its mass as it rolls and assimilates more "voices" to the cause.  People want to be recognized and accepted into groups they have covertly wished to be a part of for years. When the former president gave White Supremacists and others the green light to proceed with extreme aggression, they eagerly, and effectively, did so.  

Those who believe white people are naturally superior to all other races and ethnicities have, for the most part, been living their lives in the shadows.  It took but one small spark from one individual in the highest office in the land to set off the explosion of hostile behavior.  Anyone in America who believed they had a "score to settle" with the United States Government made tracks to the "Big Rally."  Regardless of the distance, they would travel to it in their full regalia of camos, boots, banners, Confederate and Nazi flags, guns, and ammo clips!  They were hunting for vengeance across many avenues of their hate.

Such is America's number one problem, and such is America's newly named number one enemy:  Domestic Terrorism!

We now know the "enemy within."  

But do we know how to deal with them?