White populations anywhere, not just America, regard themselves as true blue-blooded. The rest are Untermensch.
The etiology of that hardened belief fascinates me.
The guy who comes knocking at my door down from the Appalachian mountains with wood to sell, is taken aback when I open the door— she’s brown!! Gasp. He may then regain composure and is awfully nice, and I’m very very nice in return, but I hear the gasp!! Lol.
Even he, and I say this with empathy, looks down on me. He’s toothless, malnourished worn down by a very difficult life— he’s had no healthcare ever, never mind a dentist— sees me as the savage ‘other.’
And it always breaks my heart that his family will never know the magic that is universal healthcare, caught in a generational poverty trap.
What I mean to say is that I’ve never found America to be liberated from biases with notions of supreme Christian whiteness deeply imbedded in the psyche. The Crusades are still ongoing.
Please don’t be vicious, people. I won’t respond.