To notice that black people, as well as whites, can be responsible for vicious crimes of hate, is simply improper. Two years ago, the most celebrated trial of the century was about a black man accused of murdering two whites in what was apparently an act of blind rage. The idea that O.J. Simpson might have murdered his wife and a stranger because they were white was never even hinted at by the prosecution, although this was a case that was turned into a circus of racial accusations against whites by the defense. The fact is that it is not OK in America to hate blacks, but it is OK in our politically correct culture to hate white people. Entire academic departments and college curricula are based on this idea.
White people are the oppressors of minority communities and cultures.
That is America's true legacy. But the parallel is an inverted one. Blacks are celebrated in black studies and women are championed in women's studies. Academics working in whiteness studies have their own magazine published out of Cambridge, Mass., home to Harvard and MIT and one of the most liberal communities in America. Hollywood understands this rule of progressive etiquette.