THE CULTURE

OF
WHITE SUPREMACY

MY

FEELING

IS

THAT

ROBBERY

AND PLUNDER ARE BASICALLY YOUNG

NICE
GET OLDER ILL PARLAY THEM INTO

PILLAGE

FIGURE WHEN
ENDOWEDCHAIR OF

GAMES

POLITICAL

SCIENCE

CARTOON BY ELIZABETH

RADICAL
VOLUME

44

SOMEWHERE
POWELL

TEACHER
WINTER 1993

BY SHARON MARTINAS

MENS

THE CULTURE OF WHITE

WHAT

SUPREMACY

CULTURE

IS

DEFINITION
CULTURE

ORLEANS

CULTURE

IS

AND

INTERPERSONAL

OF LIFE

DEFINITION

BY

AND

CULTURE
FOR INSTITUTIONS
WHICH BINDS INSTITUTIONS

MATERIAL

THE

FOR

JUSTIFICATION

SOME

PARENTS

CHOOSE

TO

OF

THROUGH

AND BEYOND IN NEW

INSTITUTIONS
GROUPS

OF CULTURE

CULTURE

SYSTEMS

THE

ALSO PROVIDES

FROM ONE GENERATION

TO

THE

LEGITIMACY

THE

NEXT

INSTITUTE

CAN SURVIVE AS AN INDIVIDUAL

CHILDREN TO THE SCHOOL THE SCHOOL

BECAUSE

INSTITUTION

SCHOOL

THEIR

GROW AND

OUT OF WHICH INSTITUTIONS

MATRIX

INSTITUTIONS

OF PEOPLES

PUBLIC

SEND

IN

TOGETHER

DUNN

LOCAL

FOR EXAMPLE

THE

PROVIDES

PERPETUATION

BY DIANA

PROVIDED

SURVIVAL

BEHAVIOR

INDIVIDUAL

FUNCTIONS

GLUE

OF

PEOPLES INSTITUTE
PASSED ON FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION

WAY

IS

EXISTS

WITHIN

THE

TO CONTINUE
BECAUSE TAX PAYERS ARE WILLING
PARTICULAR CITY
SYSTEM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN
ENTIRE
SCHOOL
IN
SYSTEM
COUNTRY CAN
TAXES TO SUPPORT THAT SCHOOL AND THE
PUBLIC
PAYING
THE
SUFFICIENT
ADULTS
IN
POPULATION
EXIST
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION ONLY SO LONG AS
THEIR
CHILDREN TO PUBLIC SCHOOL WILL BE BENEFICIAL
BELIEVE
THAT SENDING

FOR GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS

SENSE OF BELONGING

WHO

AND
REASON
IN

FOR

YOUR

LIFE

BEING

THE

IN

WORLD

BROADLY SPEAKING

CULTURE

SET OF RULES

IS

CULTURE AS

PROCESS

BEHAVIOR

YOU CANNOT SEE

FOR

CANNOT SEE THE RULES YOU CAN ONLY

INFLUENCE
PEOPLE TO BEHAVE SIMILARLY

OTHER
THESE

FOR

EXAMPLE

CULTURAL

THEMSELVES

BEHAVIORS
CULTURE

CULTURE
PEOPLE

WHO

IS

SEE THE

BEHAVIORS

THE

RULES

CULTURE BECAUSE

YOU

PRODUCE CULTURAL

RULES

WAYS WHICH HELP THEM TO UNDERSTAND EACH

RULES SHAPE FOOD PREFERENCES THE ESSENCE OF CULTURE
BUT THE RULES THAT PRODUCE THE BEHAVIORS
IN

IS

NOT

CULTURE ARE SHARED BY THE

OF GROUPS THE RULES OF
THE
RULES
OF
THE
INDIVIDUAL
GROUP WHICH ARE PASSED ON FROM

CHARACTERISTIC

IS

GROUP NOT INVENTED BY THE

ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT

THE

ARE

WHO YOU
SENSE OF IDENTITY
PROVIDES
OF
WITH
IT
SENSE
PROVIDES
PURPOSE
YOUR
YOU ARE
AND AN ORIENTATION YOUR SENSE OF WHERE YOU ARE GOING
CULTURE

FORM THE CORE

LEARNED WHAT EACH

RAISE

PERSONS CULTURE BY
THE GROUP AND LESS

OF

THE

PERSON

LEARNS DEPENDS

THEMBECAUSE CULTURE IS
THE WAY SHE IOOKSCULTURE
WELL LEARNED

CULTURE

LEARNED
CAN BE

IT

IS

WELL

UPON THE
MISTAKE
LEARNED

CULTURAL
TO

RULES

OF

ASSUME

BY SOME PEOPLE

IN

BY OTHERS

CULTURES BORROW AND SHARE RULESCULTURAL

RULES

CHANGE OVER TIME

AND SOMETIMES

WHEN TWO GROUPS HAVE EXTENSIVE CONTACT WITH ONE ANOTHER THEY INFLUENCE EACH OTHER IN
SOME AREAS
PROCESS BY CAROL BRUNSON PHILLIPS
FEBRUARY 27 1991
EXCERPTS TAKEN FROM CULTURE AS
THANKS TO

INTISAR

SHAREEF FOR CALLING

MY

ATTENTION

TO

THIS

MATERIAL

WHAT WE GET FROM CULTURE

CULTURE

WAY

EITHER

IS

BOTHAND

INTO

CHILD

US

THE

SYSTEMS

KNOW

ABOUT

OF

US

IN

TAUGHT

OR

PUBLIC

SCHOOLS

ANOTHER YOU HAVE

TO

IS

DUALISTIC

MAKE

THAT IS
LOGIC
BETWEEN TWO

CHOICE

AN ANCIENT AFRICAN SCHOOL MIGHT HAVE BEEN TAUGHT

LOGIC
CHOICE WHICH INCORPORATES SEVERAL DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

IN

YOU CAN MAKE

NEW

FRESH

ARE

ONE THING

ALTERNATIVES

LIMITED

US

OF LEARNING
STYLE
US OUR LANGUAGE AND OUR STYLE OF LEARNING
COMMON
THINK
AND THE WAY WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW FOR EXAMPLE

CHILDREN

OF THINKING

SOMETHING
OF

GIVES

WAY WE

THE

INCLUDES

VISION

AND MEDIA

EDUCATIONAL

INFORMATION

EDUCATION

OUR WORLD REQUIRES

US TO

SYSTEMS THE WEB

AND ENTERTAINMENT

THINK

ANALYTICALLY

TO

INSTITUTIONS
THAT
MAKES UP
EMPHASIZE THAT THE WAY WE
MEASURE AND COUNT OBJECTS

OF

EMOTIONAL
MENTAL PROCESSES IN OTHER CULTURES
INTUITION
EMPATHY TELLING STORIES OF OUR PEOPLE ARE MORE COMMONWAYS OF KNOWING JOURNALISTS
TALK ABOUT OBJECTIVE
BUT THAT ASSUMES THAT THE WRITER HAS NO VALUES THAT SHE
REPORTING
BRINGS TO WHAT SHE SEES AND WRITES ABOUT

AND

FOCUS

TO

ON OUR

RATIONAL

CULTURE ALSO PROVIDES

US OUR FAMILY
STYLE THE FORM OF FAMILY NUCLEAR EXTENDED
DRESS AND DRESS STYLE
SEX ADULTS
CLAN SAME OR DIFFERENT
ETC FOOD AND FOOD PREPARATION
SENSE OF HISTORY AND THE HERITAGE OF OUR PEOPLE NORMS AND STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR SEE
CULTURE AS
PROCESS AND SOCIALLY SANCTIONED EMOTIONS HOW WE LEARN TO EXPRESS AND
OUR FEELINGS

INTERPRET

HOW WE VIEW THE

IN
THE BROADEST SENSE CULTURE GIVES US OUR WORLD VIEW LITERALLY
AND RELIGION
VALUES AND IDEOLOGY SPIRITUALITY
IS
WORLD WORLD VIEW INCLUDES SPIRITUALITY
BETWEEN OURSELVES OTHER CREATURES AND BEINGS ON THE
OUR SENSE OF THE RELATIONSHIPS
EXPRESSION OF
PLANET NATURE AND THE UNIVERSE RELIGION IS THE ORGANIZED INSTITUTIONALIZED
THAT SPIRITUALITY
PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE GENERATIONS VALUES INCORPORATES OUR SENSE OF
AND INJUSTICE
FAIRNESS AND UNFAIRNESS
WHAT IS WORTHWHILE AND
AND WRONG JUSTICE
RIGHT
LIFE

IN

IMPORTANT

THANKS

TO

DIANA

DUNN OF PEOPLES

INSTITUTE

FOR

MUCH

OF THIS

MATERIAL

IN
OUR DAILY
LIVES
ALTHOUGH
REPRODUCED AND VERIFIED
AND
BY THOSE WHO OWN AND CONTROL THE MAJOR EDUCATIONAL
SENSE BY NONRULING
MEDIA INSTITUTIONS
IT
MUST BE EXPERIENCED AS REAL IN SOME LIMITED
IN
ORDER FOR IT TO INFLUENCE
CLASS PEOPLES
GROUPS OUTLOOK
PERSON OR

IDEOLOGY
IS

IDEOLOGY

SEE

THE

WORLD VIEW

IS

CONSCIOUSLY

ANALYSIS

OF

STATES

CREATED

SLAVERY
OF

AND

RACE

AMERICA

SLAVERY RACE AND IDEOLOGY

VOL 181 1990 PP 109116

BY BARBARA FIELDS

NEW

LEFT

REVIEW

IN

THE

UNITED

YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES CREATING

BETWEEN
AN IDENTIFICATION
IN
THE PUBLICS
MIND
DRUG PUSHER AND YOUNG BLACK
THAT ONLY
OF
AFRICAN
AMERICANS WOULD INDICATE
FACTUAL ANALYSIS
ALTHOUGH
YOUTHFUL
SELL
IF
CHILD
TRIES
TO
SMALL MINORITY
OF YOUTH ARE SO EMPLOYED BUT
ONE
YOU DRUGS YOU
HAVE EXPERIENCED
THE MEDIA
HYPE AS REAL AND IT THEN BECOMES YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE
FOR EXAMPLE

OF

PUSHER

THE

MEDIA

HAS

CRIMINALIZED

MEN

WHAT

II

WHITE CULTURE

IS

OF WHITEU

DEFINITION

AN HISTORICAL

IN
COLONIALISTS
USED BY SLAVEOWNING
TO PEOPLE WAS FIRST
THE TERM WHITE AS APPLIED
SERVANTS WHO CAME FROM
TO DESCRIBE
POOR INDENTURED
17TH CENTURY MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA
IRISHMEN OR
BEEN
CALLED
ENGLISHMEN
THESE SERVANTS HAD
EUROPE ORIGINALLY
WHITE
TO DISTINGUISH
THE
TERM
TO
USE
CLASS
RULING
BEGAN
CHRISTIANS BUT THE COLONIAL
WHICH
MEANS
OFTEN
CALLED
NEGRO
WHO
WERE
EUROPEAN SERVANTS FROM AFRICAN ONES

BLACK

SPANISH

IN

THE VIRGINIA
OF

SERIES

AFTER

JOINT

TERM WHITE
LEGAL
AND
AFRICAN
SERVANTS
BY EUROPEAN

MADE

LEGISLATURE

REBELLIONS

THE

THE

DISTINCTION

IN

CULMINATING

IN

BACONS

BY
COLONIAL RULING POWERS INFORMATION PROVIDED
NEARLY BROUGHT DOWN THE
SERVANTS
ACT
IN
THE
CONCERNING
CODES
OF
1705
ESPECIALLY
IN THE SLAVE
PEOPLES INSTITUTE
SUCH AS
CERTAIN LEGISLATED PRIVILEGES
RULERS GAVE POOR WHITES
AND SLAVES COLONIAL
OF SERVITUDE
OF THEIR
TERM
AFTER
COMPLETION
FREEDOM
DUES
WAGES
SMALL PLOT OF LAND OR
FOR
FROM PUBLIC WHIPPING
THE RIGHT TO SUE THEIR MASTERS IN COURT AND EXEMPTION
THE
LAWS WHICH PROVIDED
WROTE
THE
THE
AT THE SAME TIME
LEGISLATURE
PUNISHMENT
REBELLION

OF

1676

CHATTEL

FOR

FOUNDATIONS

INSTITUTIONALIZED

SLAVERY

AFRICANS

FOR

HAS MEANT TO HAVE

TO BE WHITE
HISTORY
FROM THAT TIME ON THROUGHOUT
FROM RACIAL OPPRESSION
ACCESS TO CERTAIN FORMS OF PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT AND EXEMPTION
WHITE
SKIN
THUS THE CONCEPTS
AND
ALLEGEDLY
OF
ANCESTRY
EUROPEAN
SOLELY ON THE BASIS
INSTITUTIONAL
ROOTS
AND
SHARE THE SAME HISTORICAL
OF UWHITE
PEOPLES AND UWHITE PRIVILEGE
CREATING
TO SERVE POLITICAL
PURPOSES
HISTORICAL
CONSTRUCTIONS
AND BOTH TERMS ARE ARTIFICIAL
SO
COLOR AND ANCESTRAL ORIGIN
OF
SKIN
ON
THE
BASIS
SEPARATIONS
AMONG OPPRESSED PEOPLES
COMMON OPPRESSOR
THAT THEY WOULD NOT UNITE AGAINST

US

FOR

THEODORE WILLIAM
WHITE

HISTORICAL

MORE ON THE

RACE 1975

ALLEN

PAMPHLET
INTRODUCTION

THEODORE ALLEN
CONTROL VOL
PERIOD

OXFORD

LERONE BENNETT

JR

THE

JR

IN

UNIVERSITY

THE

THE

AND THE ORIGIN

RACIAL

INVENTION

OPPRESSION

OF THE

AND SOCIAL

MATTER

COLOR RACE

OF

1980
TAKEN IN

ESPECIALLY

THE

AMERICAN

THE

PAGES

SHAPING

OF

LEGAL

PROCESS THE

5357
BLACK

AMERICA

CHICAGO

1975

OF WHIW SUPREMACY

PERPETUATED SYSTEM OF
OF
COLOR BY WHITE PEOPLES
AND OPPRESSION OF CONTINENTS NATIONS AND PEOPLES
AND
OF
MAINTAINING
ESTABLISHING
OF THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT FOR THE PURPOSE
SYSTEM OF WEALTH POWER AND PRIVILEGE

WHITE SUPREMACY
AND NATIONS
DEFENDING

RACE

PRIVILEGE
THE

SLAVERY

1994

DEFINITION

EXPLOITATION

AND WHITE

OF RACIAL

WHITE

OF THE

INVENTION

PRESS

ROAD NOT

TERMS WHITE

OF THE

STRUGGLE

VERSO BOOKS

LONDON

LEON HIGGINBOTHAM
COLONIAL

ORIGINS

CLASS

DEFINITION

IS

AN

HISTORICALLY

BY MICKEY

ELLINGER

DEFINITION

BASED

INSTITUTIONALLY

AND SHARON MARTINAS

OF WHITE CULTURE

CONSTRUCTED QULTURE WHICH EXPRESSES

HISTORICALLY
WHITE CULTURE IS AN ARTIFICIAL
IT
IS
THE CULTURAL
AND BINDS TOGETHER THE UNITED STATES WHITE SUPREMACY SYSTEM
JUSTIFIES
INTO
WHITECONTROLLED INSTITUTIONS
SYSTEMS AND
MATRIX AND GLUE WHICH BINDS TOGETHER
THE
WORLD WAR II
SINCE
WHITECONTROLLED SYSTEMS INTO THE GLOBAL WHITE SUPREMACY SYSTEM
WHITE
CULTURE
OF
THE
GLOBAL
STATES HAS BEEN THE CENTER
WHITE CULTURE OF THE UNITED

WHITE CULTURE

DOMINANT

IS

CULTURE

UNITED
STATES
WHITE CULTURE IS NOT THE ONLY CULTURE IN THE CURRENT TERRITORY OF THE
AND
AFRICAN
AFRICAN
AMERICAN
KINDS
OF
OTHERS
INDIGENOUS
THERE ARE NUMEROUS
MANY
OF ASIAN
CULTURES
MULTIPLICITY
CHICANO AND LATINO WITH REGIONAL VARIATIONS
CARIBBEAN
OF MANY EUROPEAN PEOPLES
AND
ARABIC
CULTURES
EXPRESSIONS
HAWAIIAN
MANY
INDIGENOUS

BUT WHITE CULTURE IS THE DOMINANT CULTURE WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS
IN THINKING
ABOUT THESE CHARACTERISTICS
PLEASE RECALL DR WADE
CULTURE
THIS DOMINANT
AND TO CONVINCE OTHER
TO
DEFINE
REALITY
POWER
IS
THE
NOBLES DEFINITION
OF POWER
ABILITY
EXER MANUAL
POLITICAL
PERSPECTIVES
THEIR
DEFINITION
DEFINITIONS
SEE
PEOPLE THAT IT IS

OF

EXAMPLE

CULTURE TERM FOR PEOPLE

SHAPES YOUR ATTITUDES

IT

FOR
THE

WHITE

EXAMPLE
STREET

YET

WHO YOU ARE AND WHO OTHERS

DEFINES

IT

WHITE

WOMAN SHRINKS

THE GREAT DANGER

OF

COLOR

ARE

BEHAVIOR

THINKING

TO WHITE

IE

TO YOU FOR
NONPEOPLE

AND VALUES
AFRICAN AMERICAN

WHEN PASSING AN
WOMEN COMES FROM

FEAR

IN

RELATION

IN

NONWHITE

IS

WHITE

MEN

IN

THE

MAN

ON

HOME

AND OPPRESSES OTHER

SUPPRESSES
AND
AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY
SUPPRESSED
CULTURES
TO MAKE THEM DOCILE
OR EMPLOYERS FIRE WORKERS FOR
CHRISTIANITY
TAUGHT AFRICANS
WHO SPEAK FRENCH
BUT
WORKERS
IN
RESTAURANT
PROMOTE
SPEAKING
SPANISH
AND UNCONSCIOUSLY
CONSCIOUSLY
SLAVE
OWNERS
CONSCIOUSLY
EXAMPLE
IT

FOR

ASPECTS OF OPPRESSED
AND UNCONSCIOUSLY
APPROPRIATES
AMERICAN
MUSIC
BLUES JAZZ RHYTHM
FORM
OF
AFRICAN
GOSPEL
CULTURES
EXAMPLE EVERY
CREDIT GIVEN TO THE
MUSICIANS
WITH
NO
WHITE
HAS
BEEN
AND BLUES AND RAP
COPIED
BY
OR WHITE NEW AGERS BECOME INSTANT HEALERS CHARGING
CREATIVE
SOURCES OF THE MUSIC
IT

CONSCIOUSLY

FOR

HEFTY

FEES

BY APPROPRIATING

PRACTITIONERS

THE STANDARD

IS

NORMATIVE

IT

IS

ASSUMED UNQUESTIONED

IS

HIDDEN

BUT

OFTEN

OPPRESSED

NOT AT

PAINFULLY
OR

HEALING

PRACTICES

FOR JUDGING

VALUES

NOT ON THE

AGENDA

INDIGENOUS

IT

IT

SUPPRESSED

ANCIENT

OBVIOUS

ALL

OBVIOUS

THE

TO

TO PEOPLES

AND BEHAVIOR
THE

WAY

THINGS

ARE

OR OPPRESSING
DOMINATING
CULTURES HAVE BEEN

WHOSE

APPROPRIATED

WHITE CULTURE

IS

DEADLY BREW

WHITE CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES IS COMPLEX BECAUSE WHITE SUPREMACY IS

CULTURE IS INTERTWINED
OF THIS COUNTRY WHITE
SUPREMACIST
FUNDAMENTAL TO THE EXISTENCE
THE GREED
OF THE
THAT MAKE UP THE FABRIC
MANIFESTATIONS
WITH OTHER MAJOR CULTURAL
OF THE
FEAR
AND
HATRED
MALE SUPREMACIST
OF CAPITALISM
AND INDIVIDUALISM
COMPETITION
ITS
FEAR
OF
AND
HATRED AND
SEXUALITY
CHRISTIANITYS
POWER OF WOMEN HISTORICAL
INTO
THE SAVED AND THE DAMNED AND MILITARISMS
DIVIDE
HUMANKIND
TO
COMPULSION
THAT HAS ROOTS
OF WAR AND CONQUEST AS PROOFS OF MANHOOD AND NATIONHOOD
GLORIFICATION

US

EUROPEAN CULTURE GOING

BACK THOUSANDS

WHITE CULTURE

IS

MELTING
IT

IS

OF

YEARS
OF GREED GUYS GUNS AND GOD
DEADLY BREW

POT

YURUGU AN AFRICANCENTERED
SEE MARIMBA ANI
COMPREHENSIVE CRITIQUE OF EUROPEAN CULTURE
AFRICA
WORLD PRESS 1994
NEW JERSEY
THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOR
OF EUROPEAN CULTURAL
CRITIQUE

FOR

IN

IN

SECTION

THIS

ITSELF

MANIFESTS

WILL

TO

TRY

ON WHITE

LITE
SOME

HIGHLIGHT

WAYS IN WHICH WHITE CULTURE

REMEMBER THAT THIS IS
VERY

OF THE

AS YOU READ THIS

LIVES

OUR DAILY

IN

THE

SHININ

III

PLEASE

US

TO EXPLORE THE
IN THE
BY MANY WHITE ACTIVISTS
DONE
AND
CULTURE
HAS
BEEN
WHITE
BY ACTIVISTS
MEANINGS OF WHITE CULTURE MOST ANALYSIS ON
HOMEWORK
TO
DO
OWN
ME
TO
BEGIN
MY
SCHOLARS OF COLOR THEIR WORK HAS INSPIRED

TENTATIVE

NEW

OF

BEGINNING

EFFORT

OPPRESSION CULTURAL RACISM

THE CULTURE OF RACIAL

THE IDEOLOGY THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE MORALLY AND

WHITE CULTURE PERPETUATES
INFERIOR
TO WHITE
PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES WHITE

MENTALLY
CULTURE HAS

LAZY

CHARACTERIZED

DIRTY
THIS

BESTIAL

DEPRAVED

SAVAGE IGNORANT

COLOR AS

OF

AND CRIMINAL

ILLEGAL

IDEOLOGY

PEOPLE

FOR

UNABATED TODAY

CONTINUES

WHITE

EXAMPLE

AND WHITE

STUDENTS

INTO
GOOD
WORKERS ASSUME THAT THE ONLY REASON
PERSON OF COLOR GETS INTO COLLEGE OR
COULD
NOT
HAVE
THE
OF
COLOR
ACTION
THAT
PEOPLE
IS
JOB IS BECAUSE OF AFFIRMATIVE
IN THESE EXAMPLES
THE
COMPETED WITH THE WHITE PERSON WERE THE PLAYING FIELD LEVEL
BE
OR
MORE
QUALIFIED
OF
COLOR
EQUALLY
THAT
THE
MIGHT
WHITE PEOPLE CANNOT IMAGINE
PEOPLE
THEY ACHIEVED
THAN THE WHITES FOR THE POSITIONS

WHITE CULTURE STEREOTYPES

METHOD

SOME

TO TAKE

IS

OF

ON PEOPLE

FORCED

THAT ATTRIBUTE

AND MAKING

OPPRESSION

RACIAL

CONTINUING

AND BEHAVIORS

FIGURES

ATTRIBUTE

CULTURAL

INTO

COMMON

OF COLOR

PEOPLES

OF

COLOR BY CONQUEST AND

SYMBOL OF THE WHOLE

PEOPLE

HISTORY OF WHITE
BY MARION RIGGS DELINEATES
SUCH
AND
20TH CENTURIES
STEREOTYPES
EARLY
STEREOTYPES
FORMS OF ASSUMED BEHAVIOR THAT IS
ILLUSTRATE
THE
AS THE MINSTREL
EMBODIED IN TERMS LIKE
AMERICANS
OF
AFRICAN
INTO
CARRIED
CONTEMPORARY STEREOTYPES
CRIMINAL
GANG MEMBER AND WELFARE MOTHER FORMS CHANGE MEANINGS STAY ON
FOR

EXAMPLE
OF

THE

NOTIONS

ETHNIC

FILM

AMERICANS

AFRICAN

THE

IN

19TH

MAMMY COON

BY
IS

THEIR

TENSIONS

DEFINING

AMONG

HOSTILITY

DIVIDE

THIS

PREVENTS

HER

WHITE
WORLD AS INFERIOR

WHITE

OF

PEOPLES

OF

COLOR THAT WHITE

REALITY

COLOR FROM UNITING

FOR

PEOPLE

COMMON

THEIR

COMMON OPPRESSORS
SUCCESSFUL

CULTURE EXPRESSES

PERSONS MIND

IS

WHITE

RULING

CLASS

STRATEGY

MORE THOROUGH AND LONGLASTING

OF
THAN

BODY
CULTURE LABELS
TO

CULTURES

THE

CULTURES

THAT HAVE

OF

THE

EVOLVED

AMERICAS

AFRICA

ASIA

AND THE ARAB

WHITE

FURTHERMORE
THAT THE CULTURE THAT EVOLVED IN ANCIENT

LIE
PROMOTES THE HISTORICAL
FOUNTAINHEAD OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

ACTIVELY
THE

WAY

THEIR

DIFFERENT

AND CONQUER IMPRISONING

IMPRISONING

PEOPLES

RACISM AND INTERRACIAL

CULTURE ACTIVELY
PROMOTES INTERNALIZED
RACISM
INTERNALIZED
DISEMPOWERS
PERSON AND
OF
COLOR
PEOPLES

PURPOSES AND AGAINST

IN

AND CONVINCING

WHITE

REALITY

INTERRACIAL

AS WHITE

REALITY

IN

EUROPE

CULTURE

GREECE WAS

MOST OF THE GREAT GREEK SCHOLARS AND POETS WENT TO KEMET THE NAME
TO STUDY FOR YEARS
FOR ANCIENT
EGYPT WHICH WAS AN AFRICAN CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
THE
RENAISSANCE OF
WISDOM
AND
BEFORE THEY RETURNED TO CREATE THEIR OWN FORMS OF
IN
AND
PORTUGAL WHICH
SPAIN
EUROPE DID NOT BEGIN IN ITALY AS OUR TEXTBOOKS SAY BUT
THE
15TH
CENTURIES
MOORISH
EMPIRE OF THE 8TH THROUGH
UNDER THE AFRICAN AND ARABIC
WORLD AND DEVELOPED THE TECHNOLOGY
AND RECREATED THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENT
PRESERVED
IN

FACT

WHICH ALLOWED
OF

CONQUEST

THERE

WHITE

SCHOLARSHIP
CALL

AND PORTUGUESE
EUROPE

SPANISH
OUTSIDE

LANDS

TODAY
WOULD

THE

WHITE

IS

ACADEMICS

CULTURAL

EMBARK

ON

THEIR

VOYAGES

OF

AND

EXPLORATION

AFRICANCENTRED
RESEARCH AND
SERVING YET FEW WHITE CULTURALISTS

WAR AGAINST

SELF

SCHOLARSHIP

RESEARCH WHITE

AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL

HISTORICAL

TRADITIONAL

THIS

CALL

TO

STUDIES

WHITE CULTURES SUPPRESSES AND OPPRESSES THE CULTURES OF PEOPLES OF COLOR AS

COLONIALISM
AND RACIALNATIONAL
OPPRESSION
PART OF AN ONGOING SYSTEM OF CONQUEST
FOR

MOVEMENT NOW

THE

EXAMPLE

MANY

LAW IN

OF ENGLISH

STATES

FROM MEXICO

OF PEOPLES

CENTRAL

SPECIFIC

TO

MASK

CULTURAL

USS

IS

THE PEOPLES

ELEMENTS OF THE CULTURES OF PEOPLE OF COLOR

WHITE CULTURE APPROPRIATES
OF DOMINANT TO DOMINATED CULTURES
RELATIONSHIPS
UNDERLYING
POWER

ORDER

IN

THE

EXAMPLE RHYTHM AND

FOR

BLUES

IS

MUSICAL
CREATION
BUT ONE
WORKING CLASS MAN FROM THE
IS
ELVIS
WORSHIPPED LIKE
GOD

AMERICAN

AN AFRICAN

WHITE
MOST FAMOUS EXPONENTS WAS ELVIS PRESLEY
SOUTH MANY RHYTHM AND BLUES ARTISTS DIE IMPOVERISHED
OF

ONLY

AND SOUTH AMERICA

WAR AGAINST MEXICO

FORM
CONQUEST
IN
THE
1848
AND PUERTO RICO WHICH HAS ITS HISTORICAL
ORIGIN
COLONIALISM
IS
CULTURAL
INVASION
OF
PUERTO
RICO
ENGLISH
ONLY
AND THE 1898
OF
THE
FORCED
TO
THE
CONQUEROR
NATIONS
ARE
LANGUAGE
OF COLONIZED
SPEAK
OF

ITS

THE CULTURE OF WHITE PRIVILEGE

OF THE COIN OF RACIAL
WHITE PRIVILEGE
IS THE OTHER SIDE
OPPRESSION THEREFORE
IS
MIRROR IMAGE
SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISING TO SEE THAT THE CULTURE OF WHITE PRIVILEGE
THE CULTURE OF RACIAL
OPPRESSION

IT

OF

THE IDEOLOGY THAT WHITE PEOPLE ARE MORALLY AND

CULTURE PERPETUATES
FOR EXAMPLE
OF
COLOR
TO
MANY SUBURBAN WHITE WOMEN AND
PEOPLE
INTELLECTUALLY
THAN CHICANOS
MEN THINK THEY GET INTO COLLEGE BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE INTELLIGENT
WHEN IN FACT THEY GET INTO COLLEGE BECAUSE
NATIVE
AMERICANS OR AFRICAN AMERICANS

WHITE

SUPERIOR

THEIR

SCHOOLS

HIGH

SCHOOLS

URBAN

IN

WHITE
METHOD

IS

TO

PREPARE

EFFECTIVELY

FOR

COLLEGE

BOARDS

THAN

DO MOST HIGH

AREAS
CULTURE STEREOTYPES

TAKE

SOME

WHITE

INSTITUTIONALIZED

THEM MORE

ATTRIBUTE

CULTURAL

PRIVILEGE

IN

THE RESULT OF THE PERSONS INDIVIDUAL

AND BEHAVIOR

FIGURES
THE

WHICH

UNITED
HEROIC

IS

THE

STATES

OF WHITE
RESULT

PEOPLE
OF HUNDREDS

AND PROJECTING

THIS

COMMON
OF YEARS

ATTRIBUTE

AS

OF

SOLELY

EFFORTS

EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT IS PORTRAYED AS HAVING

SON OR DAUGHTER OF
AND
RESULT OF MORAL FORTITUDE
AND POWER FROM INITIAL
POVERTY SOLELY AS
RISEN
TO WEALTH
HARD
AND
HAVE
BOTH
WORKED
HISTORICALLY
HARD WORK BUT IN FACT EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS
FROM THE
RECEIVED
GOVERNMENT THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR WHETHER THEY WERE
PRIVILEGES
TIMES
DENIED
AT DIFFERENT
OR KIDNAPED HAVE BEEN HISTORICALLY
IMMIGRANTS
INDIGENOUS
FOR

EXAMPLE

THE

US

TO BECOME
FOR MEN AND WOMEN HAD THE RIGHT
EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS DIFFERENTIALLY
THE
TO
WITH
TO
AND
TO
LIVE
FAMILY
RIGHT
THE RIGHT TO OWN LAND THE RIGHT
BRING
CITIZENS
AND
THEIR
OWN
THE
TO
LANGUAGE
IN
SEARCH OF WORK THE RIGHT TO VOTE
RIGHT
PRACTICE
TRAVEL
AND SMALL
THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE MUTUAL SELFHELP SOCIETIES
WITHOUT INTERFERENCE
RELIGION

BUSINESSES

EDUCATION

WITHOUT
THE

RIGHT

BEING
TO

BROKEN UP BY WHITE
BRING SUIT AND TESTIFY

MOBS
IN

THE

RIGHT

COURT AND THE

TO
RIGHT

PUBLIC
TO

SCHOOL

HOLD PUBLIC

OFFICE

BY DEFINING
OF WHITE

THE CULTURE

EXAMPLE

FOR
TO

ROME

WHICH

THEN
FINE

IS

SUPREMACY

EUROPE

IS

HISTORY

OF

ENDING

WITH

THE

PROVIDED

COURSE

WHITE

AND CONVINCING

AS WHITE

REALITY

AS UNIVERSAL

PORTRAYED

WESTERN CIVILIZATION
THE UNITED
STATES
WITH

BEGINS

PEOPLE THAT
TO

APPLYING

THIS

OF

THE CONTRIBUTIONS

MOVES

THEN

ON EUROPE

COURSE

IS

REALITY

HUMANKIND

GREECE

WITH

BEGINS

BUT

THEIR

IS

IT

ALL

KEMET

TO

GREECE

ANOTHER EXAMPLE ABC NETWORK TELLS

COURSE ON WESTERN
BUT IT IS NOT
AFRICA
IN
SOUTH
AFRICA
TO
THE ELECTIONS
PUT AN AMERICANS IN SOUTH
REPORTER COVERING
NOT
BE
INTERESTED
IN
THE
READERS
WILL
STORY
SPIN ON THE STORY OTHERWISE

ITS

CIVILIZATION

US

OR

WHITE

FEMINISTS

CREATE

OF

ANALYSES

BRILLIANT

AND THEN

THIS

FROM

COMING

PATRIARCHY

TO

TO

ANALYSIS
IN AFRICA

TRY
GENERALIZE
EUROPEAN CULTURAL EXPERIENCE
BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN WHOSE ANCESTRAL CULTURES ORIGINATE
WORLD AND WE CALL THE WHITE WOMENS MOVEMENT THE
OR ARABIC

THEIR

THE

RELATIONSHIPS
AMERICAS ASIA

THE

WOMENS MOVEMENT

IN
NORMATIVE STANDARD OF BEHAVIOR FOR ONE LIVING
WHITE CULTURE PROVIDES
OF WHITE
IN
THE
MANIFESTED
THESE
NORMS
ARE
USUALLY
ARROGANCE
SYSTEM OF WHITE PRIVILEGE
TO BE TREATED IN THE WORLD
WHITE PERSON EXPECTS
ENTITLEMENT
AN ASSUMPTION OF HOW

SOME
WITH

AS

AUTHORITY

IF

WE

TO

ARE SURE OF CORRECTNESS TALKING

OTHERS GETTING

INTERRUPTING

ANGRY WHEN WE HAVE

GETTING

EXAMPLES

WHEN

OUTRAGED

WAIT

AMENDMENT

OUR FIRST

TOO LONG SPEAKING

OFTEN

LINE

IN

AS LONG AS

WE WISH
TO

RIGHTS

PEACEFULLY

RIGHTS
BY PEOPLE
BY POLICE WHEN POLIQE VIOLATE SIMILAR
GATHER AND PROTEST ARE VIOLATED
FEMINISTS
OFTEN CALL THESE
NOTE
WHITE
FOR
IN
GROUP
COLOR EVERY NIGHT
JUST
GATHERING
BELIEVE
ITS
FEATURE OF WHITE CULTURE
FORMS OF BEHAVIOR
WHITE MALE ARROGANCE BUT
WHITE MEN PRACTICE
OFTEN
WITH
HAVE
MORE
NOW
THAT
WE
EQUALITY
WHICH WHITE WOMEN

OF

AND
WHITE CULTURE CREATES WHITE BONDING THAT IS THE CROSS CLASS ALLEGIANCE
WITH
SENSE OF COMMONALITY THAT NONRULING CLASS OPPRESSED WHITE MEN AND WOMEN HAVE
ON THE BASIS OF WHITE SKIN AND EUROPEAN ANCESTRY
THE WHITE RULING CLASS
CLASS
OF POOR WORKING AND MIDDLE
BONDING COVERS UP THE CLASS EXPLOITATION
FROM
THE
OF OPPRESSED WHITES
WHITES
BY THE RULING CLASS BY DEFLECTING THE PROBLEMS
WHITE
WHITE WOMEN FROM USING THE
OF
COLOR
BONDING
PREVENTS
CLASS
TO
RULING
PEOPLE
OF
BECAUSE THEY USUALLY SUPPORT THE INTERESTS
POTENTIAL POWER OF THEIR VOTE AS WOMEN
OF
COLOR
MIDDLE
CLASS AND RICH WHITE MEN MORE THAN THE INTERESTS OF MEN AND WOMEN

WHITE

WHITE BONDING
EVOKES AN IMAGE OF
LEGAL

IS

AT

WHITE

NUCLEAR

WHITE

APARTHEID
ASSUMES OF THE WHITE

RESIDENTIAL

LANGUAGE

CORE OF THE

THE

IT

CHRISTIAN

1950S

IN

FAMILY

BONDING

THE

IS

FAMILY VALUES IDEOLOGY IT

SUBURB
SUBURB THAT PRACTICED
BASIS OF RACIST
JOKES AND

RIGHTS

CULTURAL

YOU KNOW WHO MEAN

LISTENER

IT
ON MULTICULTURALISM
ASSUMES THAT
THE
CALLS
THE ONLY CULTURE THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS IS WHITE CULTURE WHITE BONDING
THIS
CONTINENT
TERM WHICH PROPERLY APPLIES TO ALL THE NATIONSTATES ON
AMERICA

WHITE BONDING

IS

AT

THE

CORE OF

THE

ATTACKS

US

WHITE BONDING IS
CALIFORNIA
THE BONDING
PROSPECT

THAT THE

THAT ANTIIMMIGRANT
IF
THE
IMMIGRANTS

ONE

THE

REACTION

IS

MAJORITY

OF

OF

IDEOLOGISTS
IMMIGRANTS

BASES

TO THE

CALIFORNIA

MY

THE

TERROR

RESIDENTS

THE

MOST

RACISM

CURRENT ANTIIMMIGRANT
THAT MOST WHITE
WILL

SIGNIFICANT

INTERRELATED

SYSTEMS

DROWNING

CULTURAL
OF

FEEL

PEOPLE

SOON BE PEOPLE

WOULD BE USING THE PHRASE

WERE COMING FROM CANADA

WHITE BONDING IS
OPINION
OPPRESSED WHITES FROM CHALLENGING THE
IN

OF

OF

COLOR

IN

SEA

BARRIER

OPPRESSION

SWEEPING
AT

THE

DOUBT
OF

PREVENTING
IN

THE

US

THE CULTURE OF WHITE NATIONALISM

THE

NATIONALISM

CULTURE OF WHITE

THE STRUGGLE

MAKE

TO

FOR THIS

PROCESS

OF

NATION

IT

THE CULTURE OF WHITE

TO
FOR

PEOPLE

WHITE

TO

UNITED

THE

WHAT

IT

TO

AND THAT

DAY

THIS

PURPOSE ORIENTATION AND

FROM EUROPE THE TERM

AN IDENTITY

PROVIDES

USUALLY

IS

AND BY

BE ONE OF
AND BY THE PEOPLE GOES ON

NATIONALISM

FACT THAT THE

HISTORICAL

THE

OF

EXPRESSION
FOR

PEOPLE WHO IMMIGRATE

CALLED ASSIMILATION

FOR

SENSE OF BELONGING

NATION

THIS

FATHERS INTENDED

FOUNDING

THE

IS

STATES

MEANS

IS

THAT
OF

OF EUROPEAN
EUROPEAN ETHNIC

PERSON

HERHIS

OR UNCONSCIOUSLY TO GIVE UP PARTS

DESCENT AGREES CONSCIOUSLY
WHITE
AND EXPECTING
FOR
BECOMING
WHITE THAT IS ACCEPTING
IN
EXCHANGE
HERITAGE
AMERICANS
AFRICAN
OF
COLOR
ESPECIALLY
AND
SENSE OF SUPERIORITY OVER PEOPLES
PRIVILEGES
THIS
ELITE

IN

ASSIMILATION

BEGAN

VIRGINIA

CHRISTIAN

OR

BEGAN IN THE 17TH CENTURY

SERVANTS
EUROPEAN INDENTURED

PROCESS
CALL

TO

ENGLISHMEN

OR

IRISHMEN

IN

ORDER TO GIVE

WHEN

THE

WHITE

EUROPEAN

COLONIAL

OF

INSTEAD

AS SENSE OF DISTINCTION

THEM

EACH SUBSEQUENT GENERATION OF

AND SEPARATION FROM SERVANTS OF AFRICAN ANCESTRY
THE
WHITE MAINSTREAM WHEN THEY HAVE
INTO
HAS GAINED ACCEPTANCE
EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS
OF THEIR
AND
THE
ORGANIZED
MAJORITY
BEGUN TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHITE BONDING
OF COLOR
OF
TO
THE
PEOPLES
ACTION
OPPRESSION
ETHNIC SECTOR HAVE CONSENTED BY SILENCE OR

FOR EXAMPLE
AMERICAN
RACIAL

SEE

IN

THE

ANTEBELLUM

LONDON

1991

AMERICAN

IRISH

CHAP

MAKING OF THE
WORKERS AND WHITE

RACE AND THE

THE WAGES OF WHITENESS

ROEDIGER

VERSO PRESS

WORKING CLASS

FORMATION

DAVID

STATES

UNITED

CULTURES IN ORDER
WHITE CULTURE APPROPRIATES ELEMENTS OF EUROPEAN ETHNIC
FOR EXAMPLE PASTA BECAME
INCREASE THE ETHNIC GROUPINGS SENSE OF ASSIMILATION
MARKET
LOCAL
IN YOUR
SUPER
SPAGHETTI AND IS NOW AVAILABLE

TO

HAS TRANSFORMED
PRIDE AND LOVE OF COUNTRY
OF
NATIONS OF COLOR HISTORICALLY
CONQUEST
MILITARY
INTO
GLORIFICATION
PATRIOTISM
PILGRIMS TOOK THE LAND FROM
BEEN
BY
RELIGION
JUSTIFIED
THIS
MILITARY
CONQUEST HAS ALWAYS
IT
WAS
TO CONQUER MEXICO IN 1848
DESTINY FOR THE
THE HEATHENS IT WAS MANIFEST
OF
THE
SMART
GODS WILL TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY GOD WAS ON THE SIDE

THE CULTURE OF WHITE

NATIONALISM
OF THE

US

BOMBS

HUNDRED THOUSAND IRAQIS

THAT OBLITERATED

WE WHITE

ASSUMES THAT THE

THAT
OF COLOR IN THE WORLD AND THAT SOMEHOW
IN EVERY NATION
UNITED
FOR
TO THE RESIDENTS OF THAT NATION THE CURRENT JUSTIFICATION
WILL BE BENEFICIAL
INTERVENTION
FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM
NATIONAL ARROGANCE IS BRINGING DEMOCRACY OR THE
THIS
NATION
TO THE INVADED
CAPITALISM
UNDER THE GUISE
STATES CAN INTERFERE

OF THE

IMPERIAL

NATIONALISM

IE

THE
CLARKE

KPFAS

FIRST

AFRICAN

TERM WHITE
HEARD

IT

MENTAL

IN

AN

NATIONALISM
INTERVIEW

LIBERATION

IS

BY

WEEKEND

USED

DR
OF

BY THE NOTED

AFRICAN

KWAKU PERSONLYNN

MAY 17

1992

AMERICAN

TAPED

IN

HISTORIAN

1991

JOHN

AND AIRED

HENRIK
DURING

THE CULTURE OF WHITE HISTORY

US

LIE
NEITHER CHILDRENS
NOR ADULT TEXTBOOKS TELL US THAT
BASED ON
CONQUEST LAND THEFT GENOCIDE AND SLAVERY
THE UNITED
STATES WAS CREATED BY INVASION
WHITE SUPREMACY STATE INSTEAD HISTORY WRITERS FABRICATE
IT
IS
IN
ITS
FOUNDATIONS
THAT
NATION BASED ON
OF INDEPENDENCE
LAND EMBODYING THE DECLARATION
AN AMERICA AS
AND EQUALITY FOR ALL ITS PEOPLES
FREEDOM JUSTICE

HISTORY

IS

ALSO

THE HISTORIANS

IGNORE

OR

THE

TRIVILIALIZE

CONTINUOUS

HISTORY

RESISTANCE

OF

BY

LEARNING ABOUT THE AFRICAN

UNJUST FOUNDATION YOUNG PEOPLE
PEOPLES
AMERICAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE OF THE 1960S ARE TAUGHT THAT IT ALL RESTED ON MARTIN LUTHER
OF AFRICAN
AMERICAN
OF MILLIONS
DREAM AND NOT THE MASSIVE ORGANIZATION
KING HAVING
COLOR AGAINST

OF

AND

PEOPLE

THEIR

THIS

ALLIES

US

OF THE
PAST THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN
THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING
HOW WHITE SUPREMACY WORKS TODAY OR TO PLAN STRATEGIES TO
UNDERSTAND
ADEQUATELY
SECOND SOUND BITE
THIRTY
VISION GETS FRAMED IN
IT OUR POLITICAL
CHALLENGE

WITHOUT

OF

DENIAL
ABSENCE

AND

NATIONS

OF

FALSIFICATION

RESPONSIBILITY
HISTORICAL

MEMORY

PERSONAL AND
AND
PAST
PRESENT

FOSTERS

AND OPPRESSION
FOR RACIAL
DENIAL OF RESPONSIBILITY
INJUSTICE
IN
SYSTEM WHOSE WEALTH WAS
DIDNT OWN ANY SLAVES AS IF LIVING
WHITE PEOPLE SAY
WHITES
THEIR
ANCESTORS LIBERAL
BENEFIT
AFRICAN
LABOR DID NOT DIRECTLY
CREATED BY ENSLAVED
LOOK
AT
TO
STATEMENT OF UNWILLINGNESS
DONT SEE COLOR
JUST SEE PEOPLE
ASSERT
RACIAL
BY
TO PROTEST
INJUSTICE
WHITES OF CONSCIENCE JUSTIFY THEIR UNWILLINGNESS
REALITY
THAT
OF HISTORY INDICATES
WHEN
ACCURATE
READING
HAVE
NO
POWER
ANY
THAT
COMPLAINING
COLLECTIVE

ORGANIZED

PROTEST CREATES

DENIAL

OF

THE

POWER TO
FOR

RESPONSIBILITY

RACIAL

RACIAL

CHALLENGE

EFFECTIVELY

MANY FORMS AMONG

TAKES

INJUSTICE

INJUSTICE
THE

MOST

COMMON ARE
BLAMING

OF

PEOPLE

THE

COLOR

TARGETS OF RACIAL

INJUSTICE

FOR

ADDRESSING

THE

THE

OF

EFFECTS

THAT

INJUSTICE
THEORIES

RESPONSIBILITY

PROMOTING EQUAL

FOR

OF

EFFECTS

RACIAL

OPPRESSION
HIDING

THE CENTRALITY

OF

PROMOTION AND PERPETUATION

INSTITUTIONAL

THE ONE BAD APPLE

BLAME

FOCUSING

AND

TOKENISM
COLOR

THE

JUDGING

RACIAL

MYTHOLOGY

BEHAVIOR RATHER THAN LOOKING AT THE INSTITUTIONAL

CONTEXT FOR THAT BEHAVIOR
ONE PERSON OF
WHITE INSTITUTION
OVERTURN RACISM
IN
BY HIRING
AND
THE
RACIST
POWER INTACT
WHILE LEAVING
POLITICS
PRACTICE

CULTURAL
TO

POSITION

THE
BY THE INTENT OF THE OPPRESSOR RATHER THAN EFFECT ON
OPPRESSED
ILLEGAL
COLORCODED TERMS SUCH AS CRIMINAL
WITH RACIALLY

OPPRESSION

SPEAKING AND WRITING

WELFARE MOTHER DRUG DEALER
WERE COMMON BEFORE THE END OF LEGAL APARTHEID

GANG ETC

ALIEN

YOU

TELL

WHEN

LISTEN

FOR

THE

BUT

HOW CAN

YOU

TELL

WHEN

HOW CAN
INJUSTICE

AND WHITE INSTITUTIONS

VERBS SUCH AS THE
MAN WAS MADE HOMELESS

PEOPLE
IN

THE

INJUSTICE

ON ONE INDIVIDUALS

EFFORT

LEADERSHIP

IN

RACIAL

OF

FOR

WHITE

IM

NOT

WHITE
RACIAL

INDIGENOUS

PERSON

IN

IS

IS

INJUSTICE
PEOPLE

INSTEAD

OF

THE

RACIAL

EPITHETS

THAT

1960S

DENYING

PERSONAL

RESPONSIBILITY

FOR RACIAL

BUT

RACIST

PERSON

THE

OF WHITE
DENYING COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
VOICE
OR INACTIVE
LOOK FOR THE PASSIVE

DIED

OF

MANY DISEASES

OR

THE

YOUNG

EUROGENTRISM
WORLD VIEW WHICH PUTS EUROPEAN
TERM USED TO DESCRIBE
EUROCENTRISM IS
HISTORY
GEOGRAPHY ART AND PEOPLE AT THE CENTER OF ITS
VALUES CIVILIZATION
THINKING
ASIA AND THE
THE AMERICAS
FROM AFRICA
PERSPECTIVE THE LIVES AND CULTURES OF PEOPLES
OR ELSE

ON THE MARGINS

ARAB WORLD ARE PUT

ENTIRELY

IGNORED

CORE PART OF WHITE CULTURE

EUROCENTRIC CULTURE WHICH IN THE UNITED STATES IS
CULTURAL
THE
PARTICULAR
FROM EUROPEAN CULTURES THAT IS
NEEDS TO BE DISTINGUISHED
THE
EUROPEAN CONTINENT
AND NATIONS WHICH RESIDE ON
OF DIFFERENT PEOPLES
EXPRESSIONS
OF EUROCENTRISM
EUROPE BASHING THAT
OFTEN CALL CRITICISMS
DEFENSIVE
WHITE CULTURALISTS

DONT LISTEN TO MOZART WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS

ARE NOT SAYING
NONSENSE CRITICS
MUSIC WHAT JQHN COLTRANE IS TO AFRICANAMERICAN
MOZART IS TO EUROPEAN CLASSICAL
AS SUCH
MUSIC BOTH ARE GIANTS IN THEIR FIELDS AND SHOULD BE STUDIED AND VALUED
CLASSICAL
IS

WERE BROUGHT TO THIS CONTINENT BY THE EUROPEAN

MOST ASPECTS OF EUROCENTRISM
THE CENTURIES AND STILL
INVADERS AND THEIR BIOGRAPHERS IT HAS BEEN REINFORCED THROUGH
SOME
TODAY IN MY OPINION
AND MEDIA INSTITUTIONS
DOMINATES EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC
OTHER
ARE
ASPECTS
ARE WHOLLY DESTRUCTIVE
AS EUROCENTRIC
ASPECTS OF WHAT IS CRITICIZED
AND
FORMS
OF
OTHER
THINKING
OR IGNORE
DESTRUCTIVE
ONLY WHEN THEY ARE USED TO MARGINALIZE
BETWEEN THE TWO
WILL TRY TO DISTINGUISH
VALUES
OF WHOLLY

EXAMPLES

WAYS OF THINKING

DESTRUCTIVE

RATHER THAN

POWER AS DOMINATION OVER OTHERS

EITHEROR

RATHER THAN
RATHER THAN

OWNERSHIP
OWNERSHIP

FROM

AS DISTINGUISHED

IOGIC

DESTRUCTION

OF

PEOPLE

POWER AS CREATIVE
BOTHAND WAY OF THINKING

STEWARDSHIP
STEWARDSHIP

THE EARTH

OF
OF

THE

AIR

IE

LAND

CAPACITY

AND WATER
AS PRIVATE

UDESPIRITUALLZATLON
AS PRIVATE PROPERTY
FROM CONNECTEDNESS AND RESPONSIBILITY
BEINGS

OF HUMAN
SEPARATION
VIOLENCE
TOWARD OTHER BEINGS

ACT

PROPERTY

LAND

OF

TO

THE

UNIVERSE
WORLD

THE

IN

MANHOOD
MUST BE BROUGHT
OTHERS ITS GODS WILL
BELREF
THAT ONES RELIGION
IN
INEVITABLE
PROGRESS
VIEW OF TIME AS LINEAR INCLUDING BELIEF
YOURE DAMNED
BELIEF
THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUTH AND IF YOU DONT SEE IT
IS
THE
CENTER
OF THE WORLD
AT
OR NORTH AMERICA
OF EUROPE
THE CONTINENT
OF

AS AN EXPRESSION
TO

OTHER VIEWS
ONLY WHEN THEY MARGINALIZE
EXAMPLES OF VIEWS THAT ARE DESTRUCTIVE
AND
MEASUREMENT
COUNTING
KNOWLEDGE CAN BE GAINED FROM REASONING ANALYSIS
SEX IS AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE
THE KNOWER AND KNOWN ARE SEPARABLE
OF HUMAN BEINGS
AND
NURTURE
THE NEXT GENERATION
IS
TO CREATE
PURPOSE OF FAMILIES
AND ART
BEAUTIFUL
LITERATURE
HAVE
CREATED
EUROPEAN AND EUROPEAN AMERICAN MEN
FOR

COMPREHENSIVE
OF

CENTERED CRITIQUE

OF EUROCENTRISM

CRITIQUE

EUROPEAN CULTURAL

SEE

SOLD AS

AND

OF DIVERSITY

AND

LIKE

INSPIRED
SUBJECTIVE

SIDE

PO

OF

BOX

WHEN

IT

WHITE
BY

IT

MIX
MINDS

PEOPLES

STIFLES

BREAD

IT

COMES

THE WONDERBREADING

POLITICS

14141

ADAIR

BY MARGO
SAN FRANCISCO

WITH

GETS MIXED

COMMODITY PROMOTES

CAPITALIST

FEARFUL

BORING

ESPECIALLY

NJ

IN

OF

OF

THE

REST

CULTURE THAT

PUTS

PRETTY

OUR

AFRICA

YURUGU

AN AFRICAN

WORLD PRESS

1994

BREAD CULTURE

HOMOGENEITY WHITE
EUROCENTRISM

MARIMBA ANI

THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOR

THEM

PACKAGE

COUNTRY

IN

BUT

CHAPTER

AND SHARON HOWELL AVAILABLE

CA 94114

PHONE

IS

OF

WHITE

CULTURE

AND

HOMOGENOUS LACKING
BOX IT IS EXTREMELY
HAS

NO

NUTRITIONAL

VALUE

THE
IN THE PAMPHLET
FROM TOOLS FOR CHANGE

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SANCTIONED

SOCIALLY

VIOLENCE

BELIEF
IN
SAY THAT EUROPEAN CULTURES DEVELOPED
ON
THE EUROPEAN
THE
EARLIEST
WHEN
PEOPLES
THE VALUE OF VIOLENCE
YEARS AGO
IN
HOSTILE
CLIMATE WITH FEW SOURCES OF FOOD AND
CONTINENT WERE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE
IF
THERE
HAD TO KILL TO SURVIVE AND FEED THEIR FAMILIES
SHELTER MEN IN THESE EARLY TRIBES
RAID
ANOTHER
WOULD
IN
THE
FOREST
THEY
OF
FOOD
AVAILABLE
SOURCES
WERE NO IMMEDIATE
MYTHOLOGY
TRIBES
FOOD OFTEN KILLING TRIBAL MEMBERS IN THE PROCESS NORSE AND VIKING

SOME

CENTERED

AFRICAN

SCHOLARS

THOUSANDS

WHICH

SEE

THE

CULTURAL

THEORY

UNITY

OF

BLACK

OF

TO THE

TESTIFIES

BLOODY WARRIOR

ESPECIALLY

THE

IN

DIOP

THE

GLORIFIES

OF

THE

TWO CRADLES

AFRICA

ACCURACY OF

ANALYSIS

AS ARTICULATED

OF CIVILIZATION

BY

CHEIKH

ANTA

1978

WORLD PRESS

THIRD

CHICAGO

THIS

AND AFRICA WAS RIFE WITH

EUROPE AT THE TIME OF THE INVASION OF THE AMERICAS
OF IRISH
FEUDAL
LANDLORDS
THOUSANDS
STARVED
AND
KILLED
TORTURED
VIOLENCE THE ENGLISH
TO BEG AND STARVE THE
THEM
TO
THE
CITIES
OFF
THEIR
LANDS
SENDING
THREW HAPLESS PEASANTS
CHURCH ORDERED THE BURNING OF THOUSANDS OF WOMEN AT THE STAKE AS WITCHES IN
CATHOLIC
THE JEWS AND MOORS FROM SPAIN DURING THE INQUISITION
NORTHERN EUROPE AND EXPELLED
ON THE INDIGENOUS
THAT THE EUROPEANS WOULD PRACTICE
METHOD
OF
BRUTALITY
VIRTUALLY
EVERY
ON
OTHER EUROPEANS
OUT
AND
BEEN
TRIED
PERFECTED
HAD
AND AFRICAN PEOPLES
ALREADY
SEE THEODORE
SOCIAL

NEW YORK

CONTROL

FEUDALISM

AND THE

THE

WHITES
ARMIES

TO

CHEERFULLY

1994

KARL

REICH

FILM

BEGINNING

RACE VOLUME

MARX

EXCERPTS

AND WEISSKOPF

BURNING TIMES
OF THE COLUMBIAN
ERA

FROM
THE

EDS

THE

ONE

THE

CAPITALIST

AND JAN
IN

RACIAL

OPPRESSION
TRANSITION

AND

FROM

SYSTEM CAMBRIDGE

CAREW THE

RACE AND CLASS

END OF THE

THE

CURSE OF

TO INFLICT
VIOLENCE
ON OPPRESSED
WHITE RULERS NEVER HESITATED
MINE OWNERS HIRED
BURNT YOUNG WOMEN AT THE STAKE IN SALEM
TOWNS LANDLORDS
IN MINING
DURING BITTER STRIKES
WORKING CLASS FAMILIES

FATHERS

PILGRIM

GUN DOWN

WHO

TENANTS

THROW

WHITE

STATES

UNITED

REGULARLY EVICT

THE

OF THE

JANUARYMARCH 1992

COLUMBUS VOL 33

THE

EDWARDS

1972

PRESS

MOORISH ENLIGHTENMENT

IN

VERSO PRESS
IN

TO CAPITALISM

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

INVENTION

THE

ALLEN

MILLIONS

OF

BEHIND IN THEIR RENT AND TODAYS MULTINATIONAL

IN
WORKERS OUT OF WORK WHILE THEY RAKE IN BILLIONS
FALL

CAPITALISTS

PROFITS

BUT THE MOST SUSTAINED WIDE SPREAD AND SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF VIOLENCE
NATION
HAVE BEEN AND STILL ARE WAGED AGAINST PEOPLES OF COLOR THE UNITED STATES AS
THE
OF INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE
MASS MURDER OF MILLIONS
STATE WAS FOUNDED WITH VIOLENCE
OF AFRICANS
DIED THE SYSTEM OF CHATTEL
NEFARIOUS MIDDLE
PASSAGE DURING WHICH MILLIONS
BRUTAL
WAR AGAINST MEXICO IN WHICH THOUSANDS OF
SLAVERY WHICH LASTED 300 YEARS AND THE
TROOPS THE UNITED STATES STILL INVADES NATIONS
MEXICAN PEOPLE WERE SLAUGHTERED BY

US

OF

MURDERING AND STARVING

COLOR

SANCTIONED

SOCIALLY
TACITLY

AGAINST

OR

ACTIVELY

PEOPLE

OF

BY THE

THOUSANDS

MEANS

VIOLENCE

THAT

VIOLENCE

US

THAT

IS

ACCEPTED

ONLY THE FORMS OF VIOLENCE

NOT THE CONTENT OR RESULT

IN THE
SOCIETY
CHANGED OVER THE CENTURIES

MAJORITY

COLOR HAVE

JUST

OF

WAS AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF WHITE VIOLENCE AGAINST AFRICAN

FEW DECADES AGO NOW THAT SAME ROLE IS PROVIDED BY
AMERICANS AND CHICANOS UNTIL
FROM WHITE VIEW THE
OF COLOR EACH NIGHT THE FORM IS NOW HIDDEN
POLICE IN COMMUNITIES
WHITE SQUATTERS
CONTENT AND RESULT ARE THE SAME ANOTHER EXAMPLE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
THAT
INDIAN
LAND WITH THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS TODAY CORPORATIONS BUY AND POLLUTE
STOLE
KILL
THEY
JUST
PEOPLE
LAND STILL WITH THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS BOTH FORMS OF VIOLENCE
FOR

EMPLOY

EXAMPLE

DIFFERENT

LYNCHING

FORMS OF LAWS

II

THE CULTURE OF RACIAUZED

EMOTIONS

EMOTIONS
IN
WHITE CULTURE CREATES AND RECREATES CAREFULLY MANIPULATED RACIALIZED
RACISM
FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR INTERNALIZED
MAY
PEOPLES OF COLOR AND IN WHITE PEOPLE
OF COLOR THE
DISTRUST
OF OTHER PEOPLES
ESTEEM
AND
LOW
SELF
OF
PRODUCE FEELINGS
RACISM
PRODUCE EMOTIONS OF SUPPRESSED AND EXPLOSIVE RAGE
EFFECTS OF PERVASIVE
SYSTEMIC
IT
EMERGES IN
MOST OFTEN THE RAGE IS TAKEN OUT ON OTHER PEOPLES OF COLOR PERIODICALLY

COMMUNAL

ON
BASIS
SUPPRESSED
DAILY
IN THE LOS ANGELES UPRISING
TO
ONES MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH PRODUCING SYMPTOMS SIMILAR
LIVED
WHO
HAVE
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME WHICH IS COMMON TO THOSE
WAR ZONE
SUCH AS

EXPLOSION

RAGE CAN BE DEADLY

THOSE
THEIR

CALLED
IN

LIVES

TO

COMPLEX OF GUILT AND SENSE OF

PEOPLE THE MOST COMMON EMOTIONS ARE
FOR
ESPECIALLY
COMBINATION OF FEAR HATRED CONTEMPT AND FASCINATION
POWERLESSNESS
SEX THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS MAKE
AND AN OBSESSION WITH RACIALIZED
AFRICAN AMERICANS
VIEW BUT MERELY
PSYCHOLOGICAL
PHENOMENA FROM
NO ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN THESE EMOTIONAL
FOR WHITE

TO

COMMENT ON
AS

THEM
BELIEVE

ORGANIZER

POLITICAL

THAT GUILT

IS

SENSE OF

RELATED TO

CLOSELY

HUMAN BEING
POWERLESSNESS ON THE POSITIVE SIDE EMOTIONS OF GUILT DEMONSTRATE THAT
FOR
SOCIAL
INJUSTICE
SHE STILL FEELS VAGUELY RESPONSIBLE
HAS NOT LOST ALL HISHER HUMANITY
THAT SHE IS POWERLESS HER GUILT THEN
BUT WHEN SHE CHOOSES NOT TO ACT MAINTAINING
SATIRICAL
THE POINT THAT SHE CANNOT OR WILL NOT ACT FOR
HER
EMOTIONALLY
PARALYZES
THE
WACKOS
AT
THE
ANTIRACISM
OF THIS
SEE JAN ADAMS AND REBECCA GORDONS
EXPRESSION
DO NOT BELIEVE THAT FEELINGS OF GUILT AND
CONFERENCE IN THE EXERCISE MANUAL
AND ACT IN AN
POWERLESSNESS CAN BE RESOLVED BY TALKING YOU HAVE TO BREAK THE CYCLE
POWER

INDIVIDUAL

THE

IS

CREATIVE

TO

CAPACITY

ACT

MEN IS THE MOST IMPORTANT RACIALLY MANIPULATED

TO THE WHITE
SUPREMACY SYSTEM SINCE THE
PEOPLE CAPTIVE
IN
WHITE RULING CLASS TERROR OF
THIS
FEAR HAS ITS HISTORICAL
ORIGINS
REBELLIONS OF AFRICAN
SINCE
ORGANIZED
SLAVE REVOLTS THIS FEAR IS IN SOME SENSES JUSTIFIED
THREATS TO THE
THE
MOST
SIGNIFICANT
AMERICANS HAVE SINCE THE COLONIAL PERIOD HAVE BEEN
THAT FEAR OF BLACK

BELIEVE

EMOTION THAT HAS HELD

COLONIAL
ERA SOME OF

WHITE

WHITE

SYSTEM

SUPREMACY

OTHER WHITES FEAR THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS WOULD TREAT THEM AS THEY HAVE TREATED
THEY FEAR ANY ORGANIZED
IF
AFRICAN AMERICANS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY
AFRICAN AMERICANS
DOWN THE STREET OR AN
SMALL GROUP OF MEN WALKING
ACTION OF BLACK PEOPLE WHETHER
FOR THIS
IS
HISTORICAL
THERE
NO
JUSTIFICATION
INDEPENDENT AFRICAN AMERICAN ORGANIZATION
FEAR

IS

IT

MANIPULATED

RACIALLY

SOME

FEAR

OF THIS

WHITE

MALES ROUTINELY
RECONSTRUCTION WHITE

MEN
CLASS

THEIR

JUSTIFYING

ANTIRACIST

ANALYSTS

IS

MANY
WELSING
ISIS

GENETIC

WHITES

ASSERTS

IN

PAPERS THE
ANNIHILATION

WITH

ITS

ORIGINS

IN

THE

DEFEAT

PERIOD

LIKE

JACQUELYN

PP

EDITED

ONTO BLACK
FEAR THAT
HER CRESS

MALES

BLACKS

THE

THIS

WILL

SLAVERY

AMERICAN

WOMEN

HALL

THE

SEXUAL

OBSESSION

CONTINUES

UNABATED TODAY

WHITE RACE DR FRANCES CRESS

AND RACISMWHITE SUPREMACY
WORLD PRESS 1991
THAT WHITES FEAR

WIPE OUT THE

THEORY OF COLOR CONFRONTATION

KEYS TO THE COLORS

OF

THE

MIND THAT BURNS IN EACH BODY IN

BELMONT
HILL
COLLINS
ANDERSON
AND PATRICIA
BY MARGARET
OF
AS
LINKED
TO
THIS
SEXUAL
BARBARISM
PROJECTIONS
SEE

DOWD

397412

AFTER

OF

OF

RAPED WOMEN OF AFRICAN

MEN AND WOMEN JOINED IN LYNCHING AND CASTRATING AFRICAN
WHITE
BARBARITY WITH THE MYTH THAT BLACK MEN WERE RAPING

1992

MALE ACTIONS

WHITE

AGAIN

DESCENT

AND GENDER AN ANTHOLOGY

WADSWORTH PRESS

BASED

SEXUALLY

WHITE

RACE

CHICAGO

THIRD

THE

ECONOMIC OR CULTURAL POWER

OF WHITESFEAR
LOSING
ANY FORM OF POLITICAL
FOR PEOPLE
OF
LETHAL
OF
THESE
FEARS
HAS
BEEN
HISTORICALLY
THE
OR PRIVILEGES
EXPRESSION
OF COLOR IN
TOWARD
HAVE
ACTED
VIOLENTLY
PEOPLES
WHITES
TIME
AND
COLOR ENRAGED
AGAIN
HISTORY
HAS BEEN
STAPLE OF WHITE CULTURE THROUGHOUT
FACT WHITE MOB VIOLENCE
THE

MAJORITY

US

OF WHITE PRIVILEGE

EXPRESSIONS
WHITE
WHITE

SEEM

IMMUNE

ARE NOT

ACTIVISTS

PROGRESSIVE

IN

OF
TO ANY OF THE CULTURAL
EXPRESSIONS
SOCIETY BUT THERE ARE TWO FORMS WHICH

THE REST OF WHITE

IN

SUPREMACY PREDOMINANT
BE PARTICULARLY DEEPROOTED

TO

FALSE

OUR HISTORY

IN

CULTURE

PROGRESSIVE

AND

UNIVERSALS

FALSE

ANALOGIES

STATEMENT WHICH PURPORTS TO SPEAK FOR ALL

THE CLASSIC EXAMPLE
ARE WHITE
PEOPLE BUT IN REALITY SPEAKS ONLY
OF
FROM
THE
DECLARATION
THE
FAMOUS
STATEMENT
IS ALL
CREATED
MEN ARE
EQUAL
FALSE UNIVERSAL

UNIVERSALS

FALSE

FOR

IS

SOME THOSE WHO

OF PEOPLES STRUGGLES FOR

THE STATEMENT HAS INSPIRED GENERATIONS
ALSO
OF
THE FUNDAMENTAL CONTRADICTION
IT
IS
AN
EXPRESSION
AND
DEMOCRACY
EQUALITY
JUSTICE
OF
OF
THE
DECLARATION
INDEPENDENCE DID NOT INTEND
DEMOCRATIC
IDEALS
THE
WRITERS
OF
THE TERM MAY NOT
OR NATIVE
AMERICAN DESCENT
ALL MEN TO INCLUDE MEN OF AFRICAN
WHO
OWNED
SOME
THOSE
PROPERTY AND IT
INCLUDED
ALL
WHITE
BUT
ONLY
HAVE EVEN
MEN

INDEPENDENCE

WHILE

US

WAS NOT MEANT

CERTAINLY

TO

INCLUDE

ANY

WOMEN

REGARDLESS

OF

NATIONAL

ORIGINS

OR

TO

THIS

CLASS

BACKGROUND
THE

WE

TALK

USE OF THE

OF

THE

FALSE

UNIVERSAL

WOMENS MOVEMENT

MOVEMENT BUT WHAT WE MEAN

WHITE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT OUR
LEADERSHIP

ROLE

ENVIRONMENTAL

THAT ACTIVISTS
JUSTICE

IS

THE WHITE

FALSE

OF

PLAGUES

WHITE

WOMENS

UNIVERSALISM

COLOR PLAY

IN

AND PEACE AND JUSTICE

THE
AT

DISCOURSE

PROGRESSIVE

THE ENVIRONMENTAL

MOVEMENT
THE

THE

ENVIRONMENTAL

WHITE

ALLOWS US TO IGNORE

OR

DAY

ANTIWAR

AND

MOVEMENTS FOR WOMENS

HOME AND ABROAD

THE

THE

TRIVIALIZE

LIBERATION

FALSE ANALOGY IS
FALSE ANALOGIES
COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO SETS OF EXPERIENCES
THE USE OF FALSE
AND BLOTS OUT THEIR DIFFERENCES
WHICH EMPHASIZES THEIR SIMILARITIES
IN THE PERIOD
WHEN WHITE COLONISTS
OF
FALSE
UNIVERSALS
LIKE
THE
USE
ORIGINATED
ANALOGIES
JOHN
BRITAINS
ACT OF 1764
FOR
FROM
BRITAIN
PROTESTING
SUGAR
INDEPENDENCE
WERE FIGHTING
OF PENNSYLVANIA
SAID
DICKINSON

THOSE WHO

ARE TAXED

WITHOUT

THEIR

ARE SLAVES WE ARE TAXED WITHOUT

REPRESENTATIVES
OUR REPRESENTATIVES
WE ARE THEREFORE SLAVES
QUOTED IN
PROCESS THE COLONIAL

IRONICALLY

THE

TAX AGAINST

WHICH THE
TRADE THUS

SLAVE
PROF ITS FROM THEIR
COLONISTS DID NOT THINK OF FREEING

SLAVERY

EXPRESSED

LEON HIGGINBOTHAM
JR IN THE MATTER OF COLOR RACE AND THE AMERICAN
375
PERIOD NEW YORK OXFORD UNIVERSITY
PRESS 1980

ON THE

FROM THE

BY THEMSELVES OR THEIR
BY OURSELVES OR
OUR CONSENT EXPRESSED

OWN CONSENT

OF ENGLISH

THEIR

COLONISTS
INDIGNANT
IT
IS
NOT SURPRISING

ENSLAVED

DOMINATION

AFRICANS

WHEN

WERE PROTESTING
THAT THESE
THEY

FREED

SAME

LEGAL

WAS

TAX

REBELLIOUS

THEMSELVES

TO

THROUGHOUT
THAT OF SLAVERY

US
OR

HISTORY

TO

RACISM

ACTIVISTS
PROGRESSIVE
AFRICAN
AMERICANS
AGAINST

WHITE

HAVE
IN

COMPARED OUR OPPRESSION

WIN

ORDER TO

SUPPORT

FOR

MALE WORKERS BRUTALLY EXPLOITED BY 19TH CENTURY CAPITALISTS

OUR OWN STRUGGLES
OF THE SAME PERIOD
SLAVES
WHITE WOMENS RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
CALLED THEMSELVES WAGE
THEIR
TO
SLAVERY
OPPRESSION
ANALOGIZED
WHITE

THE CONTEMPORARY WHITE WOMENS MOVEMENT BORN OUT OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN
THEY EXPERIENCED FROM SEXISM
COMPARED THE OPPRESSION
FREEDOM STRUGGLES OF THE 1960S
WHITE GAYS AND LESBIANS
RACISM
AND
IN
1993
OF BEING
TO THE EXPERIENCE
OPPRESSED BY
IN THE MILITARY
HAVE
BAN
THEIR
PARTICIPATION
THE
ON
OPEN
HOMOPHOBIC
STRUGGLING TO END
DEMANDED AN END TO
WHO
OF
AFRICAN
AMERICANS
THEIR
TO
THAT
OFTEN COMPARED
STRUGGLE
SEGREGATION

IN

SAME

THE

INSTITUTION

WHEN WE USE THESE ANALOGIES WE WIPE OUT

SUPREMACYS IMPACT ON PEOPLES OF COLOR ESPECIALLY

THE DISTINCT
AFRICAN

HISTORY

AMERICANS

OF WHITE
WE DO NOT NEED

TO

DEMONSTRATE THAT NONRULING CLASS WHITE PEOPLE SUFFER OPPRESSION

REQUIRES US TO RESPECT THE
OUR HISTORY
OUR LEGACY UNDERSTANDING OUR OWN OPPRESSIONS
DIVERSE PEOPLES OF COLOR IN THE
OF
THE
AND
THE
HISTORIES
HISTORIES
DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN OUR
USE

FALSE

ANALOGIES

TO

IS

UNITED

STATES

THIS

LENGTHY

PIECE

SEPTEMBER 1994
SUGGESTIONS

ON

THE CULTURE OF WHITE SUPREMACY WAS

PLEASE

CONSIDER

WOULD BE GRATEFULLY

DRAFT

THIS

APPRECIATED

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