Along with covid19 updates, news headlines should always be
END. WHITE. SUPREMACY.
We already know WHAT and WHO white supremacy produces. Black folks have been living it for 400+ years. We and our true accomplices consistently expose it and work to end it.
On the to-do list first is naming it. And it can’t be just non-white folks naming it. Everybody, every organization, and every entity also need to name it. This includes “mainstream” media.
Let’s call a thing a thing.
White supremacy.
White supremacy.
White supremacy.
That white folks refer to the calling out of white supremacy as a “cultural divide” illustrates their euphemistic privilege of deflecting from and minimizing what has always been THE issue in this country— white supremacy. No amount of feigned ignorance, “fragility” bullshit, or wordsmithing can hide the reality. White supremacy—with all of its hateful manifestations— is the mother threat that has spawned all other threats. There’s no white-sugar-coating that makes it less than what it is. White supremacy is baked into institutions because it is THE foundation for everything.
White supremacy makes systemic racism possible.
It makes anti-Blackness possible.
It makes it possible for pattyrollers to kill Black bodies without real accountability and consequences.
It makes Asian hate possible during covid19.
It makes things like the Jan 6 insurrection possible when white supremacists don’t get their way.
It makes it possible for angry armed white men to commit acts of terrorism.
Let’s be clear. White supremacy with its “co-dependent relationship” with racism is the source of the greatest injustices ever perpetuated in this country.
White supremacy makes it “necessary” to politicize Black lives and turn our lives mattering into a debate, much the same way that masks have been politicized.
Lest we “forget,” white supremacy made it “necessary” for white folks to turn their “right” to own humans into a war.
White folks’ indoctrination into white supremacy has detached them from their humanity.
As James Baldwin put it, “They are moral monsters.” So yeah, historically, white folks are accustomed to trading humanity for white inhumanity.
It is time to fully acknowledge white supremacy as the single most deadly threat this country faces. It is way past time to name it and expose white supremacy as a lie.
A BIG PHAT BOLD-FACED WHITE LIE.
And the lie of white supremacy has given birth to a slew of lies, one of which is that anything other than whiteness is less than.
And die-hard committed white supremacists eat up and devour the lie like the pitiful self-worth-starved souls they are.
The driving force of white supremacy and whiteness can be captured in two main questions:
- How can we maintain power?
- How can we maintain dominance?
Both the questions and the answers will give you 400+ years of receipts. Before they “hate & switch,” always look to the givers of hate and what they gain when they politicize and legislate their hate. Meanwhile, we are witnessing in real time the deserved destruction of this shithole country by unchecked white supremacy.
*excerpted and adapted from Blaxhaustion, Karens & Other Threats to Black Lives and Well-Being
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