Proposition three is interesting, however allow me to turn it on its head: whiteness only exist as James Baldwin stated in his "The Fire Next Time." because of n____ers, when white people stop needing n_____ers then we will stop being n_______. The frame work works in people's ethnic origin. There is lots of love for those who are Irish and Italian of their shared cutlure. There is love for those on the cusp of obtaining whiteness like Cubans. Why does a racial identy have to supersede the ethnic idenity? As long as you have white you will have non-white. Listen to the black ex=pats and the black WW2 soilders talk about their time in Europe. Recently, Coates has describe his time in France. As a black man who has traveld a lot, I see that here in America I am black. As soon as I arrive anywhere my main identifier is American, my ethnic idenity.