Re lumping together of white people:
To a certain extent this happens, but there's a reason. To a large extent white people can "pass" into the general population. New groups arrived (Irish; Italian; etc.) and were hated at first, but after a while they blended in with the older groups of white people and were granted the privileges accorded to whites in general.
Look at it this way. I think that white people who want to retain their cultural heritage can and do. The neighborhoods in Chicago and New York have never been white and black; they're Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish, Irish, etc. A white person has a choice; she can be a strongly identified Polish person, speak the language, learn traditions, etc....but if she doesn't go out of her way to tell her boss her mom was Polish, then at work she will be treated simply as a white person. That is a privilege that nonwhites just don't have. A black woman has no choice -- she is black ALL the time, to everyone. And that has huge cultural repercussions.
That's one reason why race is such an important concept in this country, and why the barriers between groups of different colors are so much thicker and harder to overcome than barriers between white groups. Yes, once, animosity between Irish whites and English whites in America was a huge problem, but that's largely been overcome. Yet after almost four hundred years, there's still a colossal problem with lack of communication and understanding between whites and blacks (just for starters).
So I don't think the lumping together of white people is unfair, and I do think a MCGLO needs people of different colors in order to tackle the really tough problems. White people in this country eventually mingle on their own; but racial divides are like tides that we have to deliberately swim against if we want to build better understanding.
Ivy (white, but quite identified as Jewish
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