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I agree that it's no easy undertaking. The point I would like to emphasize on this list at this point is, though, that it would take a political struggle of on the order of World War 2 or (as you note) an even greater one to abolish racism. It doesn't do to deconstruct whiteness in theory, however well-intentioned deconstructors might be. One can't analyze whiteness to death.
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CB: Yes, or an American based metaphor is that we need the political-moral equivalent of the Civil War.