What Does "White" Really Mean?

"White" is not a culture. And yet so many American people will claim that it is. So will white supremacists.

Although many Americans will identify as "white", so will white supremacists. White supremacists will go one step further to identify the white people whom they believe do not fall into that category.

The concept of "white" only exists when people descended from Europeans, or people of a lighter complexion, separate themselves culturally, physically, legally, and ideologically from those who are not descended from Europeans, or those people with a darker complexion. The same is almost true of "black", although there were no "black" people until those who considered themselves "white" enslaved the poor and people of color.