In a strictly "black/white" perspective here, I think where solidarity fails more often then not is that white people fail to see they are equal to blacks.

I'm sure it's not on purpose, but the mythology of white supremacy has been so subtley and deeply embedded in everything we do in the United States, it's truly like a subliminal message that very few could escape completely.

Whites are equal to blacks.

I find it highly interesting that a white person can easily say, "blacks are equal to whites" but feel uncomfortable when someone suggests that "whites are equal to blacks."

It's as if "blacks equal to whites" is a magnanimous position to hold, as if through sheer genoristy and a "do-gooder" position, this is acceptable. Yet "whites equal to blacks" stirs up the subliminal knowledge that blacks ARE discriminated against, and if whites are equal to blacks, whites could suffer that same discrimination, racism and oppression--a frightening thing to any person.

Just some thoughts.