“Not until we white Americans disavow, relinquish, dismantle, and divest from white supremacy at an individual and institutional level will the systemic violence and terror wrought by a white supremacist society stop.” By mightykale
White privilege is a strange and pernicious thing. It can both make some voices really loud and create astonishing silence. We white folks need to learn how to use that loudness, but about the kinds of things that get silenced in this country.
We can feed on the progress narrative that has comforted us and proclaim our individual selves as “not racist,” but that leaves the monstrous truth untouched. The truth is that white settlers founded this country with a fundamental belief in the supremacy of white European civilization over Native Americans and enslaved Africans. That belief built our economy, our, our halls of government and battalions of armed forces, and even our museums and parks. Despite a tangle of denials, meek apologies, and resisted reforms, we remain haunted by the inherited and perpetuated beliefs of that founding. Not until we white Americans disavow, relinquish, dismantle, and divest from white supremacy at an individual and institutional level will the systemic violence and terror wrought by a white supremacist society stop.with Toni Morrison in 1988, Charlie Rose asked what can be done about racism in America. With her quintessential wit and wisdom, she turned the question back to her white questioner. The pressing question is not what people of color should do to end racism — Black Americans, indigenous people and Native tribes, and people of color have always and will continue to resist and stand up for their lives and well-being despite the unrelenting hostilities of society. The pressing question, rather the problem, is what will white people do to end racism. Morrison said, “If you can only be tall because somebody’s on their knees, then you have a serious problem. My feeling is that white people have a very, very serious problem, and they should start thinking about what they can do about it.” I hear Morrison’s words as I witness the most recent events to enter the archive of American racial terror. The evidence of that racial terror once again is captured by a brave bystander, allowing us to witness the knee of a Minneapolis police officer on’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. I ask myself to look at that footage and answer “What are we going to do about it?” What are white women going to do about the pandemic of racial violence that guns down
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