Sure, let's organize the honkeys. But in so doing, there's no reason to make such groups race-centric. Western culture is better for everybody, of every color. There are plenty of good organizations that are pushing the fruit of Western culture, but without having to single out one race or another.
Again, the races may be equal, but their history and present circumstances are not. Don't give me the condescension business. There's nothing condescending about recognizing that certain minorities face certain challenges, and could benefit from racially-based organizations in a way that the unminority do not.
You are getting the "condescension business" because it fits. You have absorbed the reigning progressive attitude. In absolute numbers there are as many poor whites as poor blacks who could use an organization to focus their political clout.
Denying them such, while allowing others, is exhibiting hostility toward them and their kind. They are no better or worse than black men & women, so why should they be denied the benefits of focused, race-based organization?
Race-neutral organizations promoting western civilization are grand, but condoning race-conscious organizing for some but not others is a betrayal of those very principles that underlie western civ.
After working at a housing project I no longer take that "historical circumstances" business as an excuse. I saw families coming into the USA from the bowels of Hell on Earth who didn't speak English (and had zero local family & ethnic ties) make visible improvements to their circumstances in as little as three months.
Their history was prostrate oppression at the hands of despots going back to pre-history, spiced up with a recent history of mass slaughter. A Jim Crow-like regime would have been an occasion for joyous celebration. Yet, they did not call on that as an excuse to rot in place.
Waving "historical circumstances" around is just an attempt to avoid thinking clearly on these issues. Crisp thought can make one feel uncomfortable, as it challenges current progressive orthodoxy, and might make your more conformist acquaintances uncomfy, too.
Lupinus made the point that history has, at one point or another, slapped all of us around. But being the very last to be slapped around, in the world's most prosperous and upwardly-mobile society, is somehow an excuse for cultural degradation? Any other place in history, such a reaction would occasion the utter destruction of the cultural group by starvation and slaughter. But, because the majority has provided (those so self-degraded) with sustenance and opportunity, the majority is precluded from looking out for their own interests in an organized fashion? Baloney.
Perhaps a different tack...
If explicitly white race based organizations are illegitimate, why(1)? Can you list the objective reasons? How many of those reasons might apply to explicitly black race-based organizations? How many and what sort of excuses must be made to square that circle?
OK, here's one, just to get the ball rolling:
1. All such race-based organizations are nothing more than in-groups seeking to wrest via political pressure what they can not capture via legitimate means.
2. ...
[If you are getting the feeling that I am not really so hot for race-based organizations in general, you might be right. But, if we are going to legitimize them for
one race, we ought to legitimize them for
all races. If this is to be a country ruled by men and not by law, it is foolish to unilaterally stay disorganized, as the reigning ethos will be "take what you can, as much as you can, while you still can."]
(1) I am willing to entertain reasons, but I would then be a right SOB and apply them to all such organizations.