I understand why people like Micah Xavier Johnson act as they do (shooting police because they enforce the white power structure). I understand why blacks have ambivalence if not hostility to white America. I understand that they want distinctive names and they don’t want to put white aka western values on a pedestal. I understand why they want to view OJ as innocent. I understand and respect their tendency to support their own. Jews and other members of tribes are the same way.
Group identity theory explains this. The stronger you are in your in-group identity, the more likely you are to have negative views of outsiders.
Why do many Jews have ambivalence about America? Because the stronger they are in their Jewish identity, the more likely they are to have negative views of outsiders.
Why do many asian-Americans have negative views of America? Because the more they identify with their racial identity, the more likely they are to have negative views of outsiders.
In short, the more diversity, the more conflict. The more diversity, the more division. A unified society is stronger than a divided society.
Ramzpaul tweets: “Nationalism will end discrimination. We can’t discriminate against you if you are in your own countries.”
This headline. Wow. pic.twitter.com/0ALYFLdC9T
— Michelle Fields (@MichelleFields) July 8, 2016
John Rivers tweets: “This whole thing where Whites say well, we just have to act Super Universal and shame Blacks into acting like that – no. They never will. Some will, but most Blacks in America will always be Black first.
Yes, we get 5-10% to agree with us. But that’s it.”
