So, this too is based on other thinkers. The sociologist Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom says “Whiteness is a response to Blackness.” Response is a reaction. The philosopher George Yancy says whiteness is a “reactive value-creating power.” Reactive, again. If you don’t like them, please see Merriam Webster’s definition of white as an adjective: “6a: conservative or reactionary in political outlook and action. b: instigated or carried out by reactionary forces as a counterrevolutionary measure.” Reactionary, reactive, response, reacting. There you have it. Let every matter be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.