Originally Posted by Strange Famous

I guess racism is America's blind spot... which maybe figures, because for American's there is no "blood and soil" nationalism possible - so identity must seem so much more up in the air.

White Americans have no more or less roots to the land than black Americans (and neither of them can even speak Spanish), perhaps this leads to insensitivity to the crime of slavery amongst many whites? They must just see it as a free for all which they happened to win?