ABSTRACT
There are three continual objections made to the use of colonialism as a term to describe the ghetto conditions in the United States. The first is that black people are nationalized Americans, not people of a separate identity governed by a foreign power. The second is that the Constitution supports equal citizenship for all people rather than a principle of second-class status. The third is that racism is based in historical prejudice rather than economic profit. Dean Rusk himself once acknowledged that the American racial crisis is the country's leading foreign policy problem. As long as there remains the racial crisis, US foreign policy will be looked upon as hypocritical. The role of whites in the racial crisis can take several forms. First, a white can work inside, or in close relation with, organizations in the black community, particularly as a specialist. Second, the white can work inside the white community directly against racism. This might be educational work.
