I think whites don't think of themselves as white, they think of themselves as normal. The problem isn't white people not having racial identity, it's minorities not being willing or able to abandon theirs and join the whole. Civil rights used to be about making that possible (i.e equality). Now it's more about allowing people retain and be proud their minority outsider status. Not good. All should swear alliegance to the US flag, not skin color or ethnicity, or we're doomed.