White Privilege In The Police State

America today: empire abroad and police state at home.  This didn't happen yesterday, but the past generation has seen a tremendous growth of the American Police State.  Both right-wing major political parties have done pretty much everything possible to grow the police state so politics will not be the mechanism to dismantle it.  I wonder if taking on the police state mentality from the perspective of white privilege is not one of the best ways to frame it; attacking privilege in America in the interest of spreading equality is probably a useful (and necessary) first step.  Educating the cracker masses about white privilege is always a good thing when you want to create a more egalitarian society, and that education and discussion should lead right into an analysis of the police state.  Mike King writes about police violence in Counterpunch and how it reflects a history of racist violence in the United States.  The majority in the US needs to educate itself and unite if the society is ever going to advance beyond its Imperial and Fascist reality.