The term "white nationalist" has helped me to perhaps understand where one of our national problems lay. Think about the word "nationalist". The Wikipedia says:
"Nationalism is a range of political, social, and economic systems characterised by promoting the interests of a particular nation, particularly with the aim of gaining and maintaining self-governance, or full sovereignty, over the group's homeland."
I would have to believe that an idea like that has existed as long as humans have been migrating. We have Italians promoting that which is best for Italians. We have Chinese promoting that which is best for them. There are many nations that are primarily composed of racial groups. For instance you have a racial group called Italian, and there is also a nation called Italy. Same with Chinese. We have Chinese persons living in a nation named China. These people can become nationalistic and have everything in common including race and origin.
In the United States of America, the only people who fit the bill are the native inhabitants, or what's left of them. Everyone else has roots in far away lands. Truly every racial group in the world is represented in America. You could take a random sampling of humans from all parts of America, give them all the same clothing, and unless they spoke it might be hard to guess their country. You might guess Chinese, but them be as American as apple pie!
Some of the present inhabitants of America have lost memory of their ancestors.They forget the stories of their ancestors, who were brought here as an indentured servant. They were the victims of cultural genocide. So because they really don't have an identity anymore they take one on. They take one on that makes them feel powerful. They haven't any real power. They feel like they have no real control over their lives. They feel like the system is letting them down. The "Leave it to Beaver" world they thought was going to always be there was only an illusion. So all these people who have no identity, are powerless, have no control over their lives, no steady jobs, lousy wages and no hope for a future, find comfort in "nationalism". That type of person gets sucked into hate groups because they fill up that empty space. "white nationalism", "black nationalism", "this nationalism", "that nationalism" how about Humanity Nationalism?
So it is harder to fully realize a national identity because of the differing racial cultures. Some people, in order to have an identity, have invented one. Some people who have nothing racially, culturally or in any other way except being human, have donned the identity of other people's culture. Like a person with Scot ancestry taking on the identity of the Nazi. Same goes for Irish people in the Americas. For them it didn't start out that way, but they have forgotten. They have forgotten how when their ancestors first came to these shores they were persecuted. In order to avoid persecution they adopted the all encompassing term "white person". Then they could point that wicked finger at another invention of human racism, the "black person".
Lumping an Irish person in with Germans then calling them "white people" is the same as lumping a Tutsi in with a Zulu and calling them "black person". Doing such a dastardly thing results in two horrible things. First it erases the cultural identity of each group, and at the same time divides. Then comes people like Trump, and others, who would use that false identity to whip up discontent, all in the name of their own self interest. In many ways power mongers are using technique passed down by the Roman invaders of Celtic and African lands to divide and enslave. In many ways these people who don false identities have become ignorant thralls of the modern power mongers. They all would do well to study history and learn of their true ancient cultural identities.
Thus we come to the modern era with Celtic Scots carrying Nazi and Confederate flags, with mistaken nationalistic identities and the false moniker of "white person". Thus we have a lone person of African descent sitting among Trump supporters in Arizona, cheering for the very people who would put him in chains.
We need a new identity that all Americans can be proud of, and that is all inclusive. We need something that sets us apart from all the rest, and binds us all together. My first thoughts turn to our past glories. There was a time when America was synonymous with high standards of living, high technology and human footprints on the moon. That's one big reason why I support a national priority project of space expansion. I think if we, as a nation, pulled together on something like the industrialization and colonization of our planetary neighborhood we all, no matter the ancestry, could create a new identity that said "American" and all of us could take ownership of.
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