We need to end the term “White Supremacy”. It does not speak to the true reality, history, complexity or specificity of oppression anywhere in the world. It allows wolves to hide amongst sheep, feeding on the oppressed while wearing their skin as a cloak.
The very idea of White Supremecy has drowned the cries of American Descendants of Slavery. As long as there is a “great white boogeyman” for POC to fight around the world we are always diverted away from the specificity of our plight and fight with America
Poor & working class white people were and are pawns of the same American system. It works by giving them someone else’s head to step on. For centuries it has been the hatred, free labor and blood of my people.
While so much of White America have been pawns, ADOS hasn’t even been allowed pieces on the board. So who am I really fighting? White people or America?
This distinction is important. #ADOS is dangerous to the veil of “White Supremecy” because we are not distracted by it. White Supremacy doesn’t owe us money. America does.
When #ADOS wins in America, the strategy of specificity will reverberate to oppressed people around the world. The targets no longer simply be “The white man”. It will be the nations who planned, sanctioned and aided government sponsored caste systems
Knowledge and specificity will shake out the wolves blending into the herds. Sharing my complexion does not mean you share my oppression. You may in fact be the oppressor. I know enough to recognize the difference.
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