Now that #Juneteenth has been celebrated, coopted, commercialized, It's a good time to talk about how the rise of Blackness has always threatened the continuation of Whiteness. America IS racist to the core
We won't be free until we #DismantleWhiteness
An @afronews Thread 1/8

#DismantleWhiteness
I am a descendant of enslaved people who fought to survive in America and war veterans who died while fighting to protect America. I am a walking contradiction in a land that is full of lies
https://www.afro.com/blood-on-the-roots/

The feelings of black restlessness, despair, frustration, anger are not new. It feels like it is our blood that is on the leaves and at the roots, fertilizing the soil that feeds the American dream of white exceptionalism.
#DismantleWhiteness
https://www.afro.com/white-supremacy-is-an-ever-present-danger/

It is hard to be at home in a country that does not recognize yr humanity. In 1852, FD noted that slavery was the great sin & shame in USA; Now its oppression, white supremacy, and injustice.
Trump is a racist and if you support him then you are one too
https://www.afro.com/yes-donald-trump-is-a-racist/

There is a chasm that exists btween the created notion of Whiteness & the reality of Black & Brownness in America. It is neatly stitched into the social fabric that defines who we are as a country. White people are willing to die and kill to save Whiteness
https://www.afro.com/charlottesville-worship-whiteness-karsonya-wise-whitehead/

We're at a moment where we must focus our energies and our attention on fighting Whiteness: the ugly beast that always rears its head in the midst of Black Reconstruction. MLK wondered if America is Going to hell - I believe w/ Trump, it is already there
https://www.afro.com/america-gone-hell/

America does not have a race problem; it has a problem with racists because it refuses to recognize or accept itself for how much it has changed and how much change still needs to be done. Dear racist White people: You do not realize that your time is up.
https://www.afro.com/dear-racist-white-people-your-time-is-up/

Struggle is as much a part of our American experience as racism and Whiteness, the twin cousins of White supremacy that flow from and into one another. Whiteness is exhausting/dangerous AND some whites will die to keep it. WE MUST #DismantleWhiteness
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https://www.afro.com/america-still-has-a-white-problem/