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Yesterday, I interacted with a Karen who questioned Kamala's blackness. Today @SoFearMe made me aware that another Karen publicly stated that Castro wasn't Latinx bc he doesn't speak Spanish...
As annoying, ahistorical, and straight-up racist as it is to have (white) people doing that, it is actually part of the American tradition...
Truth is, white supremacy only works when there are rules determining who is "white" and who IS NOT "white." And "white privilege" is only a thing if it can be restricted to a select group of people...
And because the Founding Fathers were white men who engaged in genocidal warfare against the indigenous people of America and enslaved Africans for profit, THEY got to decide who was white...
The white men who made up rules determining who was white and who wasn't made ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that people like Julian Castro and Kamala Harris COULD NEVER call themselves white. They also designed the power structure in such a way that their descendants would never deign to...
Call them "white." They also structured society in such a way that these descendants would feel entitled to determine the blackness or Latin-ness of people like Castro and Harris...
Now, 240 years after Independence, we have white people who feel that they should be allowed to arbitrate someone else's blackness/degrees of Latinx membership. And they are beyond shocked when they are told to stay in their lanes...
If you are a white person who somehow believed that an Indian mother negates Kamala's blackness or that an inability to speak a language that you weren't taught somehow negates Castro's identity as a Latinx man...
You are simply upholding the prevailing white (male) supremacist power structure that the Founding Fathers put in place--the very same power structure that made it possible for Donald Trump to become president after losing the popular vote....
And, if you are one of those white people, STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MY MENTIONS. Don't follow me. Block me if I (mistakenly) started following you. And leave #KHive and Castro followers alone. We like what we see in Kamala and Julian and your attempts to race-bait us into voting...
For Beto, Buttigieg, or (God help us) Joe Biden simply make you and your preferred candidate look bad....
