Will White People Ever Be Labeled As Terrorists?

In light of the bombings in Boston, an article was brought to my attention that talked about race & how that impacts the way Americans view terrorism. The article talks about how “White privilege is knowing that even if the Boston Marathon bomber turns out to be white, his or her identity will not result in white folks generally being singled out for suspicion by law enforcement, or the TSA, or the FBI.”

In other words, if you’re White you won’t be labeled as a terrorist. That title seems to only apply to people with Brown or Black skin. There have been many White men who have either blown up buildings or  responsible for mass murders – think Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma City bomber responsible for over 160 murders), Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber who killed 3 people), James Holmes (mass shooting at the Colorado movie theater last year killing 12 people), the 2 White students who killed 15 people at Columbine, and who could forget Jeffrey Dahmer who killed 17 people back in the 1980’s. Society seems to deem these “incidents” as exceptions and proof that our government would never racially profile White people. Even Ted Kazczynski was only thought of as “militant” but not a terrorist.

It’ll be interesting to see how the Boston bombing situation plays out.

Read the article below –

Terrorism and Privilege: Understanding the Power of Whiteness by Tim Wise




I know you don’t want to hear it. But I don’t much care. So here goes.









It is the source of our unearned innocence and the cause of others’ unjustified oppression.

That is all. And it matters.


The article can be found here: http://www.timwise.org

2 thoughts on “Will White People Ever Be Labeled As Terrorists?

  1. i speak the facts and if you really find anything questionable then my next question would have to be why did whites have problems with every non white race in history? and i mean EVERY OTHER RACE

  2. Thats very true and its pretty pathetic,considering whites are seriously all illegal unwanrted guests in north america to begin with and nobody has committed the most global atrocities as whites have. whites have no rights to speak about bullying or racism after all who invented classism,fascism,capitalism,colonialism,imperialism,sexism? gee could that be whites? what about color bars in britain,kkk,ira,segragation and aparthied in south africa,whites are eurocentric liars that rewrite history to suit their own attire.i can give a few examples like the aryan heritage which is hindus only and the swastika was created by hindus, whites used these as negative purpose towards past history events such as ww2.whites are responsible for ww1,ww2,defamating other races character(slander). whites are the most xenophobic racist bigots on the planet and consider their war veterans heroes when the truth is they are colonial land thieves looters and should stop their further embarrassment by giving artifacts and treasury back to its rightful countries owners..i personally would never hire a white person because they are illegal in north america and yes there were laws by natives which were broken in north america as the indigenous people are from asia and i hear whites say well north america has a history for being stolen ,well the truth is there were tribes and they all were from asia so its only fitting that the origins from a first settlers continent has the rights to originally be on these lands as there were no inhabitants when asians were in north america,whites on the other hand (pilgrims) are a different story as they say DISCOVERED land when it already had inhabitants occupying the land.so there really is nothing debatable for whites as they came here illegally and are stealing natural resources and they are ruining other races by their ideologies that they force upon other countries like they did with the natives as natives had their own beliefs language etc.

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