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Whiteness has no stable ID independent of anti-Black racism.
Blk ppl: Black Lives Matter
Yt response: All Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, White Lives Matter too!
Blk: Paint a mural
Yt: Paint over it, paint counter mural
Blk: Capitalize âBlackâ
Yt: what about white?
Blk ppl: Black Lives Matter
Yt response: All Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, White Lives Matter too!
Blk: Paint a mural
Yt: Paint over it, paint counter mural
Blk: Capitalize âBlackâ
Yt: what about white?
Whiteness is not an ethnicity and to the extent that it is a culture, itâs a culture organized around racial & ethnic exclusion. Itâs purely a power construct.
Discomfort w/ Black Americans/Negroes in particular asserting any independence from whiteness in USA is b/c it destabilizes the meaning of white ID. It bothers everyone invested in ideas of whiteness/anti-Blackness b/c whiteness has no meaning w/o privilege in the racial caste.
People of all races/ethnicities who are invested in the ideology of whiteness/anti-Blackness and whose sense of self/worldview are shaped by these ideas are disturbed whenever Black ppl appear to be overturning the racial order. Youâll see it manifest in many ways.
