The analogy of Rwanda’s racism and genocide is in reference to DiAngelo’s assertion that racism is tethered to whiteness, making white skin and white culture synonmous which it is not. We are one race, the human race. We cannot dehumanize one racial expression of that humanity over another as if that expression is a fixed status. The paradox of this human expression is that 1) we are all alike, and 2) we are like some people and not like others, and 3) we are each unique. This paradox lives out universally and all three aspects are inextricably linked. We are all alike in our humanity; so, I would have to disagree with your assertion that there is a cause and effect connected with whiteness and that white people were the root cause of genocide in Rwanda. Rather, it is the process of colonialism that sets up the dominance dynamics and not skin color. It is easy to set up this dynamic and produce these results as I (and many others) have illustrated in simulated exercises. The history you reference, which I am familiar with, pulls out the “we are like some people and not like others” and attributes dominance to whiteness rather than to behaviors that can be learned and exhibited by any human being and conditions that can be created. I appreciate the correlation you are making, and it is an important one for understanding the choices and socialization process experienced by Rwandans; however, it treats the process of colonization as if it is tethered to skin color rather than behavior and actions.