It is no secret that white nationalism is a rising force in the world community and in America. In its manifesto, white nationalism is the new and growing menace that is sweeping the world. Like a plague, grounded in the fear of being taken over by the black, brown, red and yellow people, whites feel that they are losing their right to rule the world and all that is in it.

At the heart of their fear is something that is called racism. Racism means that those people who racially define themselves as white take for themselves the right to abuse, misuse and exploit those people in the world that they racially define as colored; the red, black, brown and yellow people. 

They do it by whatever means necessary in order to control the resources of the world. Sometimes its education, religion, economics or politics. By whatever whites feel is needed to gain and maintain control of the world’s vast resources.

Whites have resorted to violence, including mass murder, as in the case of Brenton Terrant who walked into two mosques in New Zealand and massacred 50 people including a 3-year-old, little girl who was kneeling at prayer beside her father, and wounding 50 others. 

Then who could forget the black church in South Carolina who invited a young, 21-year-old white man into their prayer meeting and he systematically shot and killed them, including the preacher. 

Who could forget the Jewish Synagogue in Pennsylvania where nearly 50 people were slaughtered.

Whether in Paris, France, Australia or the United States, or other countries of the world, white nationalism is on the rise. However, it cannot and must not win. We live in a world that is changing, and it is already more black, brown, red and yellow than white, and the colored people are rising up and exercising their political, social and economic power as never before.

Building walls on the southern border to keep people who are not white from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and other unfortunate countries who are fleeing oppression and violence to come to what they believe is a better place for their families; the land of the free, the land of the disinherited and the land where we hold these truths to be self-evident “that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Nothing has really changed. In 1857, Roger Taney, chief justice of the Supreme Court, said in the Dred Scott case, “Colored people have no rights that any white man is bound to respect.” That is what white nationalism is all about.

Floyd Rose of Valdosta is senior servant of Serenity Church.