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Can White People Break White Supremacy?
Supremacy and the roles we play in keeping it alive
When we hear the term “white supremacy”, to some, it is a statement of superiority among racial categories.
Many can also individualize this term to specific people like Anders Breivik in Norway, Brenton Tarrant in New Zealand, Patrick Crusius in El Paso Texas, or Dylan Roof and others.
Many still can point to institutions and organizations such as the KKK and others like it that were created for the purposes of spreading and even enforcing this idea.
But whichever way any of us sees it, we all recognize it as an idea, and for the majority, especially non-white people, it is a dangerous idea whether we recognize it or not.
It is an idea that at its core, feeds us beliefs of being inferior to the white race. In the lives of many, this idea is kept alive through their ways of life. It is kept alive through the way they speak, dress, behave, or even look.
In many cultures, whiteness is a beauty standard, as well as an indicator of attributes such as intelligence, trustworthiness, righteousness, and so on.
This idea has taken centuries if not longer to carefully make its way into all our ways of life. It is not just institutionalized. It is not…
