Fox New’s Bill O’Reilly has insisted that “white Americans despise” the Black Lives Matter movement, and the head of the National Association of Police Organizations has accused President Barack Obama of being responsible for a “War on Cops.”

As tension continues to mount, some claim we’re in a race war in America. 

Stanley Nelson, a documentary film director said: “The very idea of the civil rights movement and non-violence was to say, ‘Look, look at what’s happening in the South — look at the dogs, look at the hoses. You have to pick a side,’” he says. “I think that’s maybe where we’re coming to now, and I think that’s maybe not a bad moment. Maybe it’s a moment of change.”


Though he does sense change, Nelson also says there are no “clear, quick answers” to the questions surrounding racism, racial tension, police brutality and bigotry against white people in America.


LeBron James who is black said the White House will not get a visit from the NBA Finals winner this year, whether it be the Golden State Warriors or his Cleveland Cavaliers. The NBA has the highest percentage of black players of any major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada yet they are unhappy with race relations in America.


The races will never completely accept one another. There are many, many members of both the black and white races who hate people of different races because of their race.

That’s why American Law was changed to protect people from race-based abuse but what exactly is “abuse”? There’s no agreed upon definition. Micro-aggressions were invented to account for people who feel bad because someone supposedly disrespects them. Don Lemon, a black commentator said what good is full employment if black people still aren’t respected.

Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, produced shock and disbelief for blacks people, and for liberals, progressives, and leftists globally. Yet most of the immediate analysis neglects longer-term accounting of how the United States arrived here. The book: “Race and America’s Long War” examines the relationship between war, politics, police power, and the changing contours of race and racism in the contemporary United States. Author Nikhil Pal Singh argues that the United States’ pursuit of war since the September 11 terrorist attacks has reanimated a longer history of imperial statecraft that segregated and eliminated enemies both within and overseas. America’s territorial expansion and Indian removals, settler in-migration and nativist restriction, and African slavery and its afterlives were formative social and political processes that drove the rise of the United States as a capitalist world power long before the onset of globalization. The return of racism and war as seemingly permanent features of American public and political life is at the heart of the most persistent American crisis.

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