While a class analysis is important to discussing this moment, it's a myth that all supporters of 45 are working class white folks. That simply is not true. The cabal that was in DC represented a wide range of the white experience. Professionals, lawmakers, blue collar folks, etc

We really need to stop creating these fantasy scenarios about who the hateful white folks are. If you are white, you know these people. They exist in the trailer park and liberal enclaves. But the rules of whiteness means you never take a deep dive with your people.

As long as "good" white people distance themselves from the "bad" white people, that is problematic as far as creating an anti racism lens.

Whiteness is funny to observe, as I once did in the pre Covid world. Folks be chilling with straight racists but have no idea because they never talk about it.

Last few Authentic Dialogues sessions I have done, I had white folks mad because I would not give them recommendations on how to better understand the Black experience. I told them they needed to better understand what it means to be white.

What happened in DC this week is why I tell people that I work with why they need to understand whiteness.

If you understand how savage your history is, what was required to create America and what was lost, then you know that what happened is exactly who white America is.

If you are white and you understand how whiteness operates then you know that 45 was not an aberration but a push back to a world where whiteness no longer pays out like it used to.

Until you as white people understand these truths about yourselves, you cannot truly ever be an accomplice or ally in the struggle for liberation. Nor can you begin to connect the larger pieces of anti racism work. If you try, it doesn't work.

One of the reasons that I despise DEI work is because its a white washed way to tackle the issue without ever making structural changes. Increasingly I also think most of the anti racism books that we lift up are bullshit. I say that as the head of an anti racism org.

Treading lightly I will say that some of the folks peddling these anti racism book are nothing more than elite hustlers who don't dare to actually work in community with the organizers on the ground.