@jizzrag
Is obviously playing a strawman. Does he not know about the Atlantic slave trade? You know the one when many people lost their identities? And it was not because they "lacked a culture".
And not just exclusive to the United States, but also Brazil, Jamaica, Dominica, etc? Black Brazilians also lost their ethnic connection to Africa, they refer to themselves as "black" and yet they don't lack a culture. It has nothing to do with being "race obsessed" or "lacking culture", but having a label "black" that binds a group together.
Also White Americans(and Australians, South Africans and Canadians) also dumped their ethnic identity for a racial one.
it depends what kind of "white" american/SA/canadian you're referring to....