Murdering minorities in America: ‘The white man’s burden’

The root cause of the sustained attacks on minorities in the US is the illusory ‘white man’ and the ‘burden’ he thinks he carries to civilise the world.

Once again, innocent members of yet another “minority community” have become victims of gun violence in the United States. On March 16, a series of mass shootings terrorised three spas in Atlanta, Georgia. Eight people, including six Asian women, were murdered. A suspect, a white man in his early 20s, was arrested. Mass protests across the US brought yet another facet of the incurably violent racism in this country to global attention. The pattern has now been fully established. A murderous, self-identified “white man” picks up readily available assault weapons and goes on a rampage murdering Asians, African Americans, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs – ethnically cleansing “their country” of people they consider undesirable. The pattern began a very long time ago, when the Spaniards who “discovered” this land started slaughtering its native inhabitants. It continued with the murderous transatlantic slave trade and the lynching of African Americans. Now it extends to other immigrant communities who these criminal “white men” don’t like to see in “their country”.