More and more I think the problem is that there isn't any such thing as "whiteness". Most of us simply don't identify as...well particularly anything. It's not that we are white, it's that we lack a strong ethnic identity that sets apart and sets us up for exploitation as a ______ group.
We are the original anti-tribal people. And the forces that be want people to have a hook so that they are easily identified, grouped and manipulated. We are hook-proof, and therefore have been set up to be "the other", that which must be resisted and fought against.