This is a country, that is really an empire, that routinely denies its own institutional racialism and colonial oppression of Indigenous Peoples and Nations at home and abroad. No one can seriously deny this although a great deal of people, including many assimilationist American Aboriginals and Africans, try very hard to do just that. Even to the point that it is not very difficult at all to find some that will angrily defend their colonial situation and who will rudely chastise those who call such a situation what it is, a serious case of unacknowledged self-colonialism. And sadly, those who raise these issues are often misunderstood as ethnic and nationalist backsliders afraid of the ‚realness’ of ‚head-on‘ politic and labelled as ‚untrustworthy‘ or worse.

The superficial awareness given to overtly-ethnic political debate exacerbates the distrust and divisions that keep people apart more than anything else. When more attention is paid to the results of colonialism and racism rather than what caused these conditions in the first place, personal reflections of racial negativity, individualist peeves and biases, rather than observable facts, become centre-stage. The originating issues and causes, it would appear, mean little. Accepted ideas and biases, as opposed to actual data and foresight, is the currency of modern global politics. And nowhere is the din of jingoist deviousness, material greed and sheer populist folly more on parade anywhere on Earth than in the United States of Capitalist A.