You think this because you haven’t studied the history of whiteness. Let’s turn to the article, “Whiteness as Property” by Cheryl Harris: “The central feature of the convergence of “white and “worker” lay in the fact that racial status and privilege could ameliorate and assist in evading rather than confronting class exploitation…It is through the concept of whiteness that class-consciousness among white workers is subordinated and attention is diverted from class oppression.” As long as whites value whiteness, we won’t be able to address many issues in society. Second point from the same article, “Whiteness remains a concept based on relations of power, a social construct predicated on white dominance and black subordination…Whiteness as a theoretical construct evolved for the very purpose of racial exclusion. Thus, the concept of whiteness is built on exclusion and racial subjugation.” Did you read that? Whiteness is predicated and built on white dominance and Black subordination and exclusion. As a Black man, whiteness is my oppression. The existence of whiteness oppresses me. If I am Black, whiteness subordinates me. So, yes, to the extent that being Black in America and in the world is an oppressed identity, all one has to do is end whiteness to liberate Blackness because whiteness is the single cause of Black subordination. I cannot transcend whiteness. That’s what the passage says, and Cheryl Harris is a legal scholar who wrote this paper in view of history in America. Whiteness has to end as a status. I’m not saying that’s all there is. I am saying, again, whiteness oppresses me as a Black man. Don’t expect me to ignore what oppresses and kills me. That’s a privilege I don’t have.