Racism By Any Name?

Neil:  You made excellent points re the non-issue of whether Donald Trump should publicly repudiate David Duke’s reported support for Trump. I have problems with any form of group identity (see my Calculated Chaos book), as the practice generates the conflicts upon which the state depends for its existence (and which the state, therefore, must foster). Identities based on the amount of melanin one has in his/her system is the crudest form of this practice. As such, should “white supremacy” be looked upon as being more offensive than the advocacy of “black lives matter” embraced by those who condemn, as racist, the proposition that “all lives matter”? Aren’t all expressions of race-based thinking to be condemned? Wouldn’t such a rejection help us to heal the contrived inter-group squabbles that separate us, and help us to discover what we have in common with one another, and what forces benefit from our thinking otherwise?