It’s International Blog Against Racism Week. Links are being collected at . I wrote a longer piece on this that’s currently under submission, so I’ll just paraphrase here–based on my experiences with discussions of race, I think white Americans have a severe underdog complex. Our society glorifies the underdog fighting against impossible odds to get to the top, to "make it", to jump from nobody to superstar in the land of opportunity. Everyone wants to be the underdog; no one wants to be the Man, the Establishment, the Authorities, whatever. Discussions of race tend to bring white people face to […]