Sam
2 min readAug 20, 2019

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You are missing several points I will correct. It’s true that there’s one human race. It’s true that race is a wrongheaded construct. Of the “races,” whiteness is terrorism. It was made by terrorism and it’s maintained by terrorism. The legal scholar Ian Haney-López says whiteness is the lynchpin of “racial meaning” in the United States. That means it all hangs together by whiteness. He also says the point of knowing you’ve been whited is to “disassemble whiteness.” The sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says the goal of antiracist work is to end whiteness. White people and white institutions are holding whiteness in place. Ending whiteness is primarily the responsibility of people who are experiencing whiteness. James Baldwin said, “As long as you think you’re white, I’m going to be forced to think I’m black.” Whiteness must be the first to go. Baldwin also said, “color is a political identity.” In general, race is evidence of racism. As a political identity, race positions people in the courtroom of antiracism. And in that courtroom, whiteness is culpable for racism. As such, to be pro-Black is to be pro-justice. In fact, to be anti-white is to be pro-justice. That’s particularly true because whiteness is a construct of superiority with ill-gotten gains and collective prominence passed from generation to generation. Whiteness is inhumane. It implies someone is monoracial and untainted. But in truth, even if we only talk about race as ancestry and origins, no one is monoracial. No one comes from one place alone. But everyone has mitochondrial DNA that goes back to Africa. Then, based on history, and the one-drop rule, Blackness has included a mixed identity, which is actually factual, human, and humane. We must be clear that whiteness and Blackness are not the same. One of the two, whiteness, is always, only, and entirely evil.

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