White Violence

Kashana Cauley's title says it all -- America is defined by "A Culture of Violent White Guys":

"It may seem weird to tie this idea of encouraged violence to a culture called 'white guys,' because white guys don’t necessarily identify as white guys—they often see themselves as just guys. But culture is both a set of positive affirmations about the value of one’s self and one’s group affiliations and a set of negative rules about what people shouldn’t do if they want to continue belonging to society. Blackness, as an example, is defined as much by someone’s skin color or the history of black contributions to the world as by the things that black people are culturally discouraged from doing, like openly carrying guns. If culture is, in part, what you can get away with, then violence is a part of white culture.

So it’s sadly not surprising that we occasionally end up with guys like [Austin letter-bomb terrorist] Conditt, or Timothy McVeigh, or the Unabomber, who step beyond the norms governing violence in this country. Especially in an era where the president has indicated that domestic terrorism, which is largely committed by white guys, isn’t an enforcement priority. We have to teach our white guys who feel angry or sad that violence isn’t the answer."

Stating the obvious here, but circa 2018 it's telling that a white Christian conservative dude literally blowing up black people cannot be called a terrorist, he is merely misunderstood.