'My People' mantra is risky and self-serving, let us drop it now

America was in shock yet again last Tuesday as a white 18-year-old teenager went on a mass shooting spree in Buffalo, New York. Ten African Americans died in the shooting that clearly targeted blacks. To be honest, I wondered what levels of hatred must have been planted in the mind of this young man to drive him, at such a tender age, to raze down innocent human beings.

A visibly angry President Joe Biden identified it as white supremacy that had become “a poison running through our body politic, and it’s been allowed to fester right in front of our eyes.” Apparently, there is a replacement conspiracy theory that has been spreading from the fringes of American society into mainstream media. The bizarre theory apparently claims there is a plot to replace the white population with non-white immigrants – which unless checked could transform the face of America.