White Supremacy Culture
- DecolonizeMyself
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
WATCH THIS BEFORE YOU GO FORWARD:
WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE WEBSITE:
'Throughout this website, when I use the term white supremacy, I am referring to the ways in which these ruling class elite or the power elite in the colonies of what was to become the United States used the pseudo-scientific concept of race to create whiteness and a hierarchy of racialized value in order to
disconnect and divide white people from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) / the global majority;
disconnect and divide Black, Indigenous, and People of Color / the global majority from each other;
disconnect and divide white people from other white people;
disconnect and divide each and all of us from the earth, the sun, the wind, the water, the stars, the animals that roam(ed) the earth;
disconnect and divide each of us from ourselves and from source (see below).
The power elite constructed white supremacy (and construct it still) to define who is fully human and who is not.'
CHARACTERISTICS
'While white supremacy culture affects us all, harms us all, and is toxic to us all, it does not affect, harm, and violate us in the same way. White supremacy targets and violates BIPOC people and communities with the intent to destroy them directly; white supremacy targets and violates white people with a persistent invitation to collude that will inevitably destroy their humanity.'
*Following link provided by facebook page Autistic, Typing can be read here: https://www.sbctc.edu/resources/documents/about/edi/white-supremacy-culture-tema-okun.pdf and on website.*
what white supremacy culture characteristics are not:
'I have come to understand that some people, when introduced to the White Supremacy Culture article and its list of characteristics, respond with anger, thinking that my goal in listing the characteristics is to shame or blame. Sometimes people are angry about being connected to any of the characteristics, feeling that to admit we have perfectionist tendencies or a belief that our way is the right way makes us bad.'
*SEE HERE: https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/mental-illness-doesnt-excuse-problematic-behavior#1
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