In contrast, consider what White Supremacists would consider "White Culture" (as in that "which we must uphold and defend as one with racial honour and identity")....

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The Exaggerator: "... creating a healing time and space beyond reality for you...."

this video made me squirm because it is so embarrassingly true. My Immediate family are Unitarians (I don't really like going to church or "fellowship" as UU's like to call it, I like to sleep, but now that my 3 year old is asking about god I'm going to have to start taking her to their pre-school because as a agnostic with atheistic tendencies I have no idea what to tell her.) So sometimes I get dragged along and on one of those occasions the Minister (who was a really cool guy,) was lecturing the what looked like a almost white, (except for the African baby that had been adopted my a member,) congregation. Apparently the congregation was trying really hard to attract people of different ethnicity into the church.(The UU"s at this church were really frustrated, it seemed that they were unable to show haw progressive that they were without any people of color filling in the ranks. The Minister was telling them that they were wasting their money on "diversity" classes that were not actually helping their cause. He chastised them for what was their real problem, the people of color who would show up didn't come back, and the reason was because the people there treated them like they were foreign royalty or something. They gushed and payed way more attention to them then they would a regular old white newcomer. They made people uncomfortable. He then said that this was almost as off putting as blatant racism would be. When someone joins a church or a group or any other kind of community they want to be a part of something. By making such a big deal out of a black family or a Latin couple that show up makes them feel like an outsider. People don't come back to a church that puts them up on a pedestal like some kind of mascot, and that means they don't bring their family or any friends either. that is how a community builds members, word of mouth. the sad thing is I heard people talking after the sermon and they were offended. they couldn't accept that the possibility that they were acting inappropriately. It was sad. Growing up in Chapel Hill N.C. I was sheilded from racism to a great degree. I didn't really even know that the diffrence between white and black was a big deal, i kinda thought that it was like the diffrence between being blonde and being brunette. Some of this I'm sure was because I was literally oblivious to much of what was going on around me. A specialist my mom took me to explained it that although my body was here on Earth my mind was spinning around Mars. I found out in 2nd grade when we learned about slavery and racism and was devastated. After that I watched people closely and was horrified to find my grandmother on my dads side, and lots of his family were racist.
They said terrible things and used ethnic slurs when around each other and other white people, and I was terrified of being with them when someone who wasn't white came around. I was worried they would say something derrogatory or mean. I remeber very clearly being in the grocery store with my grandma when a black women she seemed to know got in line behind us. It was so weird, my Grandma acted like they were the best of friends, asked about her family and gushed over baby pictures. I was relieved and confused. I couldn't figure out how she could be so friendly about someone who was black when she was always talking so negatively at home.
Someone I know is always trying to tell me that racism, (and most forms of bigotry) are not a very big deal anymore. We have a lot of fights about this. He just doesn't get it, bigotry has just hidden itself away a little more. Whenever I start to think that things are getting better though i realize that american society still has the ability to disapoint me still. It seems that people can hate each other for so many reasons. The issue of immigration seems to be bringing out the worst of our country's xenophobia. That and Muslims, people are getting away with saying lots of shit about Muslims right now. Anyways I've gone off topic(which I have a huge tendency to do). I really don't know if the human race is going to be able to rid itself of this problem or not. There always seems like a new race or religion for people to get all worked up over.

Funny. And sad (for its truth).

One hopes that 'E pluribus unum' is more than just a good idea...