Interestingly, I have only been following this story through online reports and didn't even know -- or care -- about the race of the ranchers and their supporters until this article raised the point.
And yet I was quite certain that a group of independent, principled people in rural Nevada defending themselves against an oppressive Federal government was comprised almost entirely of white people. That's pretty pathetic, isn't it? And it says a hell of a lot more about racial politics in this country than what the author of this article has written.
It is germane because a hundred armed feds go after a white rancher who they say owes $1 million while the president parties with one Al Sharpton who owes $1.9 million in back taxes.