The United States never tackled its white supremacy issues.  Right wing white militias are allowed. White people marching in military uniforms/equipment is okay, the swastika is fine, shouting “Heil Hitler” is fine, shouting Nazi slogans such as “blood and soil” are fine.  The Klu Klux Klan are not terrorists.  The confederate flag and symbols are okay. Marching with hoods and crosses, the symbols that have terrorised African Americans over centuries are all okay. So not a surprise that statues of racists and slave traders are deemed acceptable.

None of these things would be okay if Muslims or the Black community did them.

The first slave was brought to the USA in 1619, it’s now 2020! Some 440 years later racism is still deeply embedded in US structures and things that are not acceptable anywhere else in the world are acceptable in the USA.

In the last 20 years almost all of the rise of white supremacists and neo nazi groups have found a support base around Europe, and support from the USA. Which has also turned on Muslim communities.

To treat this as a movement of the white uneducated and poor is a mistake, although many have been radicalised into it.  Its leaders and architects are white intellectuals, politicians, liberals, think tanks and journalists and the media. They are the wealthy and in positions of power. They generate hate against Muslims and Islam, and also against Black America. Not just in the USA but across Europe.

This is not different from those who led colonial/imperial racism, or the Nazi movement in Germany.

Until white supremacist structures and its architects and propagandists are defeated inside the US, the rest of the world will all be victims of its white supremacy around the world.

The struggle against racism inside the USA, is in a sense not just a Black struggle.  It is a struggle for Muslims around the world and all people of colour.