Ken Burch
1 min readJun 22, 2021

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The only "tribe" I'm in is the human race. My objective is to get other white people accept that it's enough to be part of THAT tribe...it's enough to be one equal culture among many, that we don't have to define our identity by support of capitalism or conservatism or the most rigid, imperialist-sounding form of "Christianity"...that we need to let go of the absurd idea that any victory for any individual of another identity, or any gain for any other identity or collection of identity is both illegitimate and somehow a theft from whoever some whites define as "us".

Basically, I'm asking my fellow whites to chill out, relax, admit that life isn't mainly or primarily about us, and stop acting as if the ONLY relationships we could have with anybody who isn't exactly like is us either dominance or subjugation.

We need to accept that we're just PART of the world and that the rest of the world isn't out to annihilate us just because our ancestors and some of our alleged, self-anointed "leaders" today were and our fixated with annihilating the rest of the world.

Does any of that sound like "hatred" to you? Really?

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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