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Systemic Racism, Individual Responsibility: Why Black Positivity Triggers White Rage
Bustling street scene of Black Wall Street’s shops, theaters, and businesses in early 20th centuryLast week, I wrote an article about the Black family—specifically the enduring institution of the Black family reunion. It was a celebration of culture, resilience, tradition, and community. It was not an indictment of white people, nor did it mention systemic racism or historical atrocities. It was simply a quiet, intentional affirmation of Black life.
Yet, a predictable pattern struck again.
In the comment section of the facebook post used to promote the article, a few readers lashed out with visceral, unprovoked hostility. One reader insisted I needed to “teach the Black family some good parenting skills” and asserted that “the only people holding back Black people from success are Black people.” All mind you without reading the article. All this from the promotional post. When I pushed back by listing foundational Black inventions that shaped modern American life, another reader jumped in with outright rage, claiming that Black people are “a race without any meaningful accomplishments” and that “Black Wall Street is a made-up lie… it was a dirt road average Black town.”
Notice what happened there: I never brought up Black Wall Street.
He did. Out of nowhere. Unprompted.
That unprompted reaction reveals something critical. He didn’t bring up Tulsa because he was ignorant of it; he brought it up because he knew about it and actively chose to degrade it. He knew the history, felt threatened by its implications, and felt compelled to diminish a thriving, self-sustaining Black community to a “dirt road” to keep his own worldview intact.
When we talk about systemic racism, people often run to one of two extremes: either blaming every white person individually, or treating “the system” as some abstract, faceless ghost that nobody is personally responsible for.
The truth is far more uncomfortable.
Systemic racism is structural. It refers to the policies, institutional designs, and historical inertia that yield disparate outcomes across race, regardless of individual intent. It is how a Black police officer, operating within a system built on specific historical incentives, can participate in institutional brutality. The design of the machine transcends the color of the person operating it.
However, recognizing the power of the system does not exonerate the white individual.
The white individual sitting behind a keyboard may not single-handedly draft laws, set bank lending policies, or draw redlined district maps. They do not uphold the entire structural apparatus of systemic racism on their own. But it is their personal attitude—the cruelty, the willful denial, and the hostility that surfaces the moment Black excellence is mentioned—that fuels the engine.
The system is what denies my rights, but it is the individual that denies my peace.
Why does the simple assertion of Black joy or historical achievement provoke such irrational hostility? Because for those who have anchored their identity in a rigid racial hierarchy, Black progress is viewed through a zero-sum lens. If Black people built Greenwood—a 35-square-block district with its own luxury hotels, modern hospitals, banks, and legal practices where dollars circulated for nearly a year—then the myth of absolute white superiority collapses.
Rather than adjust their worldview to accommodate the facts of Black achievement, it is psychologically easier for them to declare those facts “bullshit,” “exaggerations,” or “lies.” Aggression becomes a defensive armor to avoid the discomfort of unlearning.
This is precisely why platforms like My Two Cents exist.
The goal of documenting our history, celebrating our cultural traditions, and highlighting our achievements has never been about seeking permission, begging for validation, or picking a fight with strangers in a comment section. It is about grounding ourselves in truth.
When people invade a space dedicated to Black positivity and lash out with unprovoked anger, they are demonstrating the exact individual cruelty that keeps racism alive on a human level. You do not get to claim innocence while actively fanning the flames of contempt. You do not get to pretend a thriving community was a “dirt road” just to preserve your own racial comfort.
Ultimately, that rage is a confession. It reveals a deep-seated fear that if the myth of Black inferiority completely shatters, the foundation of unearned privilege crumbles with it.
We cannot control every system designed to limit us, nor can we stop every hostile comment on the internet. But we have absolute control over our narrative. We will continue to gather at the family reunion. We will continue to honor the legacy of Greenwood and the countless inventors, thinkers, and builders who shaped this nation. We will continue to speak our history plainly—not to convince those determined to hate us, but to ensure our community and our children never forget who we are.
The system can keep its barriers, and the trolls can keep their rage. Our peace, our history, and our joy belong strictly to us.
#Blackhistory #Blogging #Dailyprompt #History #Society #SystemicRacism #Whitefragility #Whiterage #History #philosophy #racism #writing -
Systemic Racism, Individual Responsibility: Why Black Positivity Triggers White Rage
Bustling street scene of Black Wall Street’s shops, theaters, and businesses in early 20th centuryLast week, I wrote an article about the Black family—specifically the enduring institution of the Black family reunion. It was a celebration of culture, resilience, tradition, and community. It was not an indictment of white people, nor did it mention systemic racism or historical atrocities. It was simply a quiet, intentional affirmation of Black life.
Yet, a predictable pattern struck again.
In the comment section of the facebook post used to promote the article, a few readers lashed out with visceral, unprovoked hostility. One reader insisted I needed to “teach the Black family some good parenting skills” and asserted that “the only people holding back Black people from success are Black people.” All mind you without reading the article. All this from the promotional post. When I pushed back by listing foundational Black inventions that shaped modern American life, another reader jumped in with outright rage, claiming that Black people are “a race without any meaningful accomplishments” and that “Black Wall Street is a made-up lie… it was a dirt road average Black town.”
Notice what happened there: I never brought up Black Wall Street.
He did. Out of nowhere. Unprompted.
That unprompted reaction reveals something critical. He didn’t bring up Tulsa because he was ignorant of it; he brought it up because he knew about it and actively chose to degrade it. He knew the history, felt threatened by its implications, and felt compelled to diminish a thriving, self-sustaining Black community to a “dirt road” to keep his own worldview intact.
When we talk about systemic racism, people often run to one of two extremes: either blaming every white person individually, or treating “the system” as some abstract, faceless ghost that nobody is personally responsible for.
The truth is far more uncomfortable.
Systemic racism is structural. It refers to the policies, institutional designs, and historical inertia that yield disparate outcomes across race, regardless of individual intent. It is how a Black police officer, operating within a system built on specific historical incentives, can participate in institutional brutality. The design of the machine transcends the color of the person operating it.
However, recognizing the power of the system does not exonerate the white individual.
The white individual sitting behind a keyboard may not single-handedly draft laws, set bank lending policies, or draw redlined district maps. They do not uphold the entire structural apparatus of systemic racism on their own. But it is their personal attitude—the cruelty, the willful denial, and the hostility that surfaces the moment Black excellence is mentioned—that fuels the engine.
The system is what denies my rights, but it is the individual that denies my peace.
Why does the simple assertion of Black joy or historical achievement provoke such irrational hostility? Because for those who have anchored their identity in a rigid racial hierarchy, Black progress is viewed through a zero-sum lens. If Black people built Greenwood—a 35-square-block district with its own luxury hotels, modern hospitals, banks, and legal practices where dollars circulated for nearly a year—then the myth of absolute white superiority collapses.
Rather than adjust their worldview to accommodate the facts of Black achievement, it is psychologically easier for them to declare those facts “bullshit,” “exaggerations,” or “lies.” Aggression becomes a defensive armor to avoid the discomfort of unlearning.
This is precisely why platforms like My Two Cents exist.
The goal of documenting our history, celebrating our cultural traditions, and highlighting our achievements has never been about seeking permission, begging for validation, or picking a fight with strangers in a comment section. It is about grounding ourselves in truth.
When people invade a space dedicated to Black positivity and lash out with unprovoked anger, they are demonstrating the exact individual cruelty that keeps racism alive on a human level. You do not get to claim innocence while actively fanning the flames of contempt. You do not get to pretend a thriving community was a “dirt road” just to preserve your own racial comfort.
Ultimately, that rage is a confession. It reveals a deep-seated fear that if the myth of Black inferiority completely shatters, the foundation of unearned privilege crumbles with it.
We cannot control every system designed to limit us, nor can we stop every hostile comment on the internet. But we have absolute control over our narrative. We will continue to gather at the family reunion. We will continue to honor the legacy of Greenwood and the countless inventors, thinkers, and builders who shaped this nation. We will continue to speak our history plainly—not to convince those determined to hate us, but to ensure our community and our children never forget who we are.
The system can keep its barriers, and the trolls can keep their rage. Our peace, our history, and our joy belong strictly to us.
#Blackhistory #Blogging #Dailyprompt #History #Society #SystemicRacism #Whitefragility #Whiterage #History #philosophy #racism #writing -
Canadian National Railway abandoned three freight trains carrying “combustible and flammable materials” near a First Nations community.
“OPP disclosed shortly before 5:00 pm Tuesday that three trains carrying combustible and flammable materials were stopped and staged near… Collins First Nation”.
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Canadian National Railway abandoned three freight trains carrying “combustible and flammable materials” near a First Nations community.
“OPP disclosed shortly before 5:00 pm Tuesday that three trains carrying combustible and flammable materials were stopped and staged near… Collins First Nation”.
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#Churchill was the Prime Minister when the British caused a famine in Iran during WWII by forcibly requisitioning stores of grain there.
Churchill was also the Prime Minister when India exported food ignoring a famine in Bengal during WWII. But 50 peers organized "a row": https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/23/artwork-removed-national-portrait-gallery-helen-cammock-churchill-bengal-famine
#whiteFragility #London #India #Bangladesh #BritishEmpire #famine #Cromwell #history #HouseOfLords #WWII #UK
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#Churchill was the Prime Minister when the British caused a famine in Iran during WWII by forcibly requisitioning stores of grain there.
Churchill was also the Prime Minister when India exported food ignoring a famine in Bengal during WWII. But 50 peers organized "a row": https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/23/artwork-removed-national-portrait-gallery-helen-cammock-churchill-bengal-famine
#whiteFragility #London #India #Bangladesh #BritishEmpire #famine #Cromwell #history #HouseOfLords #WWII #UK
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How cultural institutions subtly silence and exclude writers, in the guise of concern or responsibility, to censor and “reshape[s] what other writers feel able to say, and what audiences are permitted to hear”.
Natasha Joyce, "Empty Words, Emptying Stages": https://www.lantana.net.au/words/empty-words-emptying-stages
#fragility #whiteFragility #culturalSafety #intersectionality #institutionsDeceive #coloniality #beliefs #censorship #conflation #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #Australia #institutions #organizations
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How cultural institutions subtly silence and exclude writers, in the guise of concern or responsibility, to censor and “reshape[s] what other writers feel able to say, and what audiences are permitted to hear”.
Natasha Joyce, "Empty Words, Emptying Stages": https://www.lantana.net.au/words/empty-words-emptying-stages
#fragility #whiteFragility #culturalSafety #intersectionality #institutionsDeceive #coloniality #beliefs #censorship #conflation #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #Australia #institutions #organizations
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Another one for the #whiteFragility category! https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/05/22/outrage-over-northland-tales-program-hypocritical?briefing_id=602309756&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9cvcRK9IwzNsH4b3BwSvspdBG8i--fAByuiNyCugqa2Dds7thhqpYsqfi7DDZk-vVCL6KnO_IRMoDX_iiGRadM77OSCQ&_hsmi=16085228
#satire #IndigenousPeople #PoliceViolence #ResidentialSchoolDenialism #Colonialism #Canada
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Another one for the #whiteFragility category! https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/05/22/outrage-over-northland-tales-program-hypocritical?briefing_id=602309756&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9cvcRK9IwzNsH4b3BwSvspdBG8i--fAByuiNyCugqa2Dds7thhqpYsqfi7DDZk-vVCL6KnO_IRMoDX_iiGRadM77OSCQ&_hsmi=16085228
#satire #IndigenousPeople #PoliceViolence #ResidentialSchoolDenialism #Colonialism #Canada
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When the murderer of an #Indigenous person is characterized as the victim, this #Conservative's rant clearly falls into the #whiteFragility or #whiteSupremacist category. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2026/05/21/manitoba-politician-calls-saskatchewan-farmer-who-killed-colten-boushie-a-victim?briefing_id=602309756&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9w5w9Kfqqz0qvY74sAiLt3u-mT_nsBt00NaiWvgiULxr3O3OFmWQaZ2hltFg9HcUJY67vTFyeTXZZXNiadyA6EGYdf7w&_hsmi=16085228
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When the murderer of an #Indigenous person is characterized as the victim, this #Conservative's rant clearly falls into the #whiteFragility or #whiteSupremacist category. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2026/05/21/manitoba-politician-calls-saskatchewan-farmer-who-killed-colten-boushie-a-victim?briefing_id=602309756&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9w5w9Kfqqz0qvY74sAiLt3u-mT_nsBt00NaiWvgiULxr3O3OFmWQaZ2hltFg9HcUJY67vTFyeTXZZXNiadyA6EGYdf7w&_hsmi=16085228
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White Fragility erschwert Gespräche über Rassismus: Statt Austausch entstehen Abwehr, Relativierung und Unsicherheit. So bleibt struktureller Rassismus unsichtbar. Warum das passiert und wie sich diese Dynamiken durchbrechen lassen.
#whitefragility #Rassismus #belltowernews
White Fragility: Warum es so schwer ist, über Rassismus zu reden
https://www.belltower.news/white-fragility-warum-es-so-schwer-ist-ueber-rassismus-zu-reden-165727/null -
White Fragility erschwert Gespräche über Rassismus: Statt Austausch entstehen Abwehr, Relativierung und Unsicherheit. So bleibt struktureller Rassismus unsichtbar. Warum das passiert und wie sich diese Dynamiken durchbrechen lassen.
#whitefragility #Rassismus #belltowernews
White Fragility: Warum es so schwer ist, über Rassismus zu reden
https://www.belltower.news/white-fragility-warum-es-so-schwer-ist-ueber-rassismus-zu-reden-165727/null -
@iraiah8, Black Royalty, wrote:
My dad is 85.
He grew up in the Jim Crow South. This isn’t distant history. it’s his memory.He told me a story:
(1/5)
#blackhistory #whitehistory #blackwomen #92percent #misogynoir #segregation #whitefragility #blackmastodon
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@iraiah8, Black Royalty, wrote:
My dad is 85.
He grew up in the Jim Crow South. This isn’t distant history. it’s his memory.He told me a story:
(1/5)
#blackhistory #whitehistory #blackwomen #92percent #misogynoir #segregation #whitefragility #blackmastodon
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Shrinking S02E11
A Sister Gaby immediately calls out a white woman Liz when she repeats what Gaby expressed in Ebonics.
Liz immediately stops without white fragility.
#tv #blackactors #blackconsciousness #blackwomen #92percent #whitewomen #karen #whitefragility #blackpower #blackmastodon
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Shrinking S02E11
A Sister Gaby immediately calls out a white woman Liz when she repeats what Gaby expressed in Ebonics.
Liz immediately stops without white fragility.
#tv #blackactors #blackconsciousness #blackwomen #92percent #whitewomen #karen #whitefragility #blackpower #blackmastodon
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Sage. (AI Generated Image) #sage #sageadvice #wise #wiseadvice #saying #oldsaying #bigotry #endbigotry #homophobia #endhomophobia #racism #endracism #sexism #endsexism #evil #xenophobia #hatred #humanity #problems #prejudice #obstinate #unreasonable #humansuffering #pride #whitefragility #malefragility #straightmalefragility
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Sage. (AI Generated Image) #sage #sageadvice #wise #wiseadvice #saying #oldsaying #bigotry #endbigotry #homophobia #endhomophobia #racism #endracism #sexism #endsexism #evil #xenophobia #hatred #humanity #problems #prejudice #obstinate #unreasonable #humansuffering #pride #whitefragility #malefragility #straightmalefragility
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Barbie wishes you a Happy and Well-Informed Black History Month. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #blackhistoryamericanhistory #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #barbie #barbies #fashiondolls #fashiondoll #History #historymatters #historyfacts #whitefragility #racerelations #equality #equalitymatters #reading #wellread
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Barbie wishes you a Happy and Well-Informed Black History Month. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #blackhistoryamericanhistory #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #barbie #barbies #fashiondolls #fashiondoll #History #historymatters #historyfacts #whitefragility #racerelations #equality #equalitymatters #reading #wellread
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I've been watching another Karen show, All Her Fault, which has a theme of the unfair burden of the (white) mom having to always be "amazing".
Pluribus utterly destroys that concept, excellently, giving us a female character who's anything but "amazing", and the whites are so much, "no, not like that. she makes us seem bad".
We need more unlikable female characters because women are just as shitty as men.
#Plur1bus #Pluribus #SciFi #ScienceFiction #tv #television #AllHerFault #whiteFragility
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I've been watching another Karen show, All Her Fault, which has a theme of the unfair burden of the (white) mom having to always be "amazing".
Pluribus utterly destroys that concept, excellently, giving us a female character who's anything but "amazing", and the whites are so much, "no, not like that. she makes us seem bad".
We need more unlikable female characters because women are just as shitty as men.
#Plur1bus #Pluribus #SciFi #ScienceFiction #tv #television #AllHerFault #whiteFragility
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Imagine listing MULTIPLE resources and claiming you have nothing then calling a #MultiplyMarginalized #unhoused Brown Neuro Non-Conforming Latina woman a nazi then blocking them like a fucking coward
Take your #WhiteFragility and shove it
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CW: Productivity, innovation, discipline 🧶
To meet this artificial demand, the plantation system laid the foundations for the future capitalist organisation of labour and production. The sugar industry at the time was a ‘synthesis of the field and the factory’, a veritable “agribusiness” that was ‘unlike anything known in Europe at the time’. Sugar cane juice had to be processed quickly after harvesting to produce sugar crystals and molasses, which, when distilled, produced rum, a product that would soon become popular on European markets as well.
Plantation farming was therefore an integrated system that required major innovations for the time in order to organise and improve production. The accounting system put in place made it possible to calculate yields more accurately and, as a result, to cut back on the ‘needs’ of slaves in terms of food, housing and clothing in order to extract as much value as possible.
#exploitation #whiteSupremacy #whiteFragility #chattelSlavery #industry #innovation #productivity
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CW: Productivity, innovation, discipline 🧶
To meet this artificial demand, the plantation system laid the foundations for the future capitalist organisation of labour and production. The sugar industry at the time was a ‘synthesis of the field and the factory’, a veritable “agribusiness” that was ‘unlike anything known in Europe at the time’. Sugar cane juice had to be processed quickly after harvesting to produce sugar crystals and molasses, which, when distilled, produced rum, a product that would soon become popular on European markets as well.
Plantation farming was therefore an integrated system that required major innovations for the time in order to organise and improve production. The accounting system put in place made it possible to calculate yields more accurately and, as a result, to cut back on the ‘needs’ of slaves in terms of food, housing and clothing in order to extract as much value as possible.
#exploitation #whiteSupremacy #whiteFragility #chattelSlavery #industry #innovation #productivity
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Plantations industrialised with capitalism.
Let's spin a sugary yarn 🧶@economics @histodons @geography
#EstelleSays #sugar #tobacco #accumulation #racism #extractivism #landGrab #raceMaking #lineofColor #racialization #rapeCulture #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #whiteFragility #Discovery #Encounter #Columbus #plantations #America #history #slavery #England #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Bristol #Liverpool #London #decolonial #antiRacism #sweet #sweets #Caribbean #marketing #commOdon
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Plantations industrialised with capitalism.
Let's spin a sugary yarn 🧶@economics @histodons @geography
#EstelleSays #sugar #tobacco #accumulation #racism #extractivism #landGrab #raceMaking #lineofColor #racialization #rapeCulture #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #whiteFragility #Discovery #Encounter #Columbus #plantations #America #history #slavery #England #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Bristol #Liverpool #London #decolonial #antiRacism #sweet #sweets #Caribbean #marketing #commOdon
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@gvs --
Seriously... You should really do this for every one of your comments.
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Seriously... You should really do this for every one of your comments.
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"The Zionist produces and defines itself through the animalization of the Palestinian."
"Palestinian liberation is an impossibility in the current ordering of knowledge and being, similarly demanding through its realization the end of […] this world, and modernity."
This paper "posits that Palestinian freedom necessitates the creation of new worlds and [the getting rid of encumbering] constructs such as modernity and the Human."
https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/ by Scott Campbell @susurros
#pessimism #epistemology #grievability #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #PalestinianLivesMatter #Zionism #intellectualHistory #colonialism #genocide #ongoingNakba #brutalization #philosophy #europe #europeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #SylviaWynter #praxis #raceMaking #entanglement
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"The Zionist produces and defines itself through the animalization of the Palestinian."
"Palestinian liberation is an impossibility in the current ordering of knowledge and being, similarly demanding through its realization the end of […] this world, and modernity."
This paper "posits that Palestinian freedom necessitates the creation of new worlds and [the getting rid of encumbering] constructs such as modernity and the Human."
https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/ by Scott Campbell @susurros
#pessimism #epistemology #grievability #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #PalestinianLivesMatter #Zionism #intellectualHistory #colonialism #genocide #ongoingNakba #brutalization #philosophy #europe #europeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #SylviaWynter #praxis #raceMaking #entanglement
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"Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
by Scott Campbell @susurros“Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror(continued) 🧶
#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking
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"Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
by Scott Campbell @susurros“Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror(continued) 🧶
#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking
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"Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc-warrants-palestinian-skepticism-and-the-glimpse-of-justice/cited in https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/
#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss
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"Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc-warrants-palestinian-skepticism-and-the-glimpse-of-justice/cited in https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/
#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss
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Global South feminists are reclaiming refugee discourse this 7th July.
Recently, 49 white South Africans claimed “refugee” status in the United States – a move that dangerously conflates white settler discomfort with real exile.
Register now and join efforts to create a Pan-Afrikan, Anti-Imperial, Feminist Migration and Foreign Policy: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UPaQd5lTSIOyZkCLiseuUA#/registration
#feminist #immigration #refugee #policy #antiimperial #migration #panafrikan #postgrowthalliance #whitefragility
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We can’t strip O’Leary of his citizenship, but can we at least strongly suggest he never return to Canada or be near a Canadian flag again?
What a corrupt toad. No one with a shred of morality respects this guy.
“Even CNN’s token Republican Scott Jennings sat back and laughed when the Canadian-born businessman went into full meltdown on Tuesday’s NewsNight.”
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@GottaLaff we appear to have reached the the bottom of the slippery slope that started when some offended white racist said: ‘but that — insert racialized person — is being racist toward MEEE’
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https://variety.com/2025/film/news/john-boyega-star-wars-white-fans-reject-black-heroes-1236352669/
John Boyega Says ‘Star Wars’ Is ‘So White That a Black Person Existing in It’ Is a Big Deal: Toxic Fans Are ‘Okay With Us Playing the Friend’ but We ‘Cant Touch Their Heroes’
By Zack Sharf
Mar 31, 2025 8:35am PT#BLM #RepresentationMatters #StarWars #wypipo #whiteprivilege #whitefragility #bigotry #racism #heaintwrong
