RE DK WHERE WE ARE GOING MY COMMENT THERE THE MANY WAYS TO GO WRONG ON RACE

 Professor

Great post. Wide ranging. Here is another perspective on a couple of topics.
While It does not jive with your views that well, it hits some other aspects of the issues addressed:
I do not believe that the anti police brutality and anti white racial police brutality protests will have significant lasting positive effects on either the police in general or for domestic race relations.

One reason is that political structures and institutions will not change in that direction soon or together, if at all; there may also be a backlash in the opposite direction, if disorder increases.

Another reason has to do with America's tendency to project and identify its domestic race relations with global racial characteristics and trends, and with economics of global inequality (a drum West liberal media constantly beat), and with the long European past, none of which bodes well, given that Asian, Muslim, African negro, and Hindu racisms each are, if anything, consolidating, both economically religiously and xenophobically, not only each against the others under various kinds of pressures of globalization, but also especially against the post colonial white world in particular as a putative rogue civilization, which they all think they are justified in blaming for all their woes throughout history today.

Identifying the virus pandemic as a racism pandemic, where for example China blamed the US (while having taken extraordinary amounts of aid and knowhow for dangerous virology research) for introducing the virus, fuels the fires of all races of color's deeply misguided sense of revenge against Western civilization, as the cause since 1500 of their nevertheless ages old backwardness and poverty.

My own view is that global race relations, within which American race relations should be viewed, are deteriorating rapidly and have recently been exacerbated by US race tension events and rhetoric, and that the circumstances causing that are all only likely to keep getting worse.

This will have a long term negative impact on American race relations, which Americans tend to see largely in their own vacuum, especially in light of demands for reparations for colonialism itself going back to before 1500, and implicating also especially the Islamic world as a co perpetrator in both Africa and India.

The avalanche of migrants of color into largely white Europe, which Europe is unable to stop, from the Middle East and Africa, and Hindus already there, has already made Europe a powder keg of racial and religious and political tensions ready to go off.

Russia may have its own special problems, but I am not too familiar with them, except to note that highly populous China looms along an enormous border with it.

All the best