As a white guy, I'm perfectly fine with the fact I can't say N______. Even if black people can.

[Neoma]

58. You have to be white to be considered Irish or Polish as far as I can tell.

People from Africa have just as many (or more) different types of cultures than Europeans do. But it's America that has been making unique distinctions due to the country being so young, mixed and harsh. Black people had their identities stolen from them, and so they have a better brotherhood and sisterhood going on in America than white people have. They have something to bond over. (That isn't religious.) White people still have their ancestors identities intact and their ancestors histories weren't erased (or tortured.) That's the general difference.

By all rights we all should be calling ourselves American rather than Polish, Irish, African, Chinese etc. But because our country is so young, we do not and cannot erase our ancestors past history and culture. We don't want to crush these cultures, they are part of our identities. It's part of the great diversity happening in America. But we keep pushing on that someone is really from Poland or that Chinese guy is really from China, even though they've been born and raised in America. That's the wrong thing to do. But sometimes it's a way to try and understand what is different from your own culture to theirs. But! You can tell the racism from the, "why don't you go back to Africa?" comments. Someone is always from somewhere else right? There lies the problem.