Comment: In the rush to condemn and persecute the racism of "white privilege", there appears to be an unspoken collusion to not address racism and discrimination within/between our ethnic groups.  (Let's see if this post even survives the Civility test)

I teach at a university and was recently approached by two international students who objected to a third one being in their group...because they were from a lower caste.  It reminded me of some of the animosity I have heard between status Indians and the non-status and Metis indigenous.  They are united against the government but quite divided amongst themselves.

Political pandering to these groups is no different than the way Trump panders to his (white) base, for which he is routinely criticized.  Journalists like Milewski and Yakabuski are unusually brave in even cautiously addressing the surface of this issue.