If the White Supremacist Shoe Fits
Why folk’s gotta get so triggered over race, y’all — for realz!
I been outta commission a couple weeks working on my new piece about race and people be gagging! First, if you see the words White Supremacist and automatically get offended, it’s the moral equivalent of your slip is showing mah’ fuggy! You the only one don’t see how not a good look that is. If you assume whenever they talking about racism, they talking about you, then that’s just you putting on shoes that fit yo’ ass.
I, personally, know I’m racist. I’ve internalized beliefs that a) race is a thing, even when there ain’t no scientific backing o’ the idea hasn’t been proved false since the 1980’s; and b) I attribute attitudes and behaviors to people based on what I see as they racial makeup. That’s most of what racism is. There’s also a piece of it preferences based on what folks believe is a thing called race. I’m sometimes guilty o’ that, too.
That’s the nature things you spend 500 years indoctrinating people to serve a messed up system you want to keep running unquestioned. For a majority of people to go along with slavery, they had to believe enslaved people deserved the shitty treatment they was getting. Most people ain’t evil and will balk at something they believe is wrong. People had to be set at ease what was happening to enslaved Africans was okay.
Believing in White Supremacy did not make people bad. It made them trusting. People still trusting the government wouldn’t allow nothing immoral to happen. It don’t make them stupid either. It makes them naive. People have to believe in a fundamental power goodness over evil. It’s hard AF the average person to swallow that selfishness could win over generosity. God wouldn’t let something so bad happen, right?
Regardless how you wanna look at it, believing people evil and stupid is a poor place to start if you hope they gonna change. It’s also pointless to find yourself above racist thinking because your ass is woke. Ain’t no amount of woke can unpack all they is to understand about how beliefs about race effect everything we do in the U.S. Race butters our bread in this modern world. It’s the bacon alongside our sunny side ups.
Dig in.
