The comments are at the same time bland and offensive. They're bland because he can backpedal to say that "any time there is social change there is bloodshed" and they're offensive because he (and others like him) doesn't distinguish between white people. That's what makes it racist. If he said "for there to be progress, there may be bloodshed" that indeed is a kind of statement of fact, but it's because he says "for there to be progress, white blood must be shed" makes it racist. It's creepy to be calling for bloodshed at all from the academy. But this kind of talking about "white people" as if that's a thing, is just legitimized ignorance. He goes on to say that in the Civil War white blood was shed. Yes, it's true, German revolutionaries were expelled from Baden in the thousands, came here, and decided that they couldn't live with slavery, got Abraham Lincoln elected and fought and died to end slavery here. Do they get any thanks? No, they had to all erase themselves and pretend not to be German, lose all their German language and newspapers and culture when WWI and WWII came around. And this guy is so ignorant of history that he lumps the 48rs in with the plantation owners.