If All White People Went Back to Their Own Countries

The Great White Exodus from America

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For anyone intending to read the entire article, feel free to not take this article too seriously. But I know the racists will have much to say. They always do.

I thought this would be a fun speculation considering so many non-Euro descendants have been told this a lot throughout the history of this land of the free.

Also, I spend a lot of my time working on my fictional work and don’t get here on Medium as much as I’d like so I thought I’d bring my imagination here.

I’m curious, though. What would a Euro-descent American person feel like if they were told to go back to their own country, especially having been born and raised in the U.S.? I’m sure they’ve all had the privilege of never having to think about it.

I can say it would probably be a lot easier to trace their origins and find out which country or countries their ancestors hailed from. So at least they’d have a better head start than Afro-descent people. But don’t they always?

Anyways, part of the White fragility and fear Euro-Americans have is that they will be outnumbered and overpowered one day. That was almost the exact premise “Whiteness” itself was founded. Some White people already feel threatened when too many people of color move into their neighborhoods, shop at their stores, and go to school with their kids.

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So it’s no wonder they’ve said it often to freed slaves and still say it to people — visibly Muslim Americans, Indian Sikhs, and Asians especially — “go back where you came from.” But what if White people were told that and they had to?

I imagine it could be something like the Israel/Palestine situation. Perhaps some obscure contract of land ownership will be magically found showing the current inhabitants don’t technically own the land. Maybe some historical reference from centuries ago will be obtained in a country they can then make their own for all Euro-Americans.

Or, as courtesy often extends towards the paler complexion population, perhaps multiple…