To reckon with the fact that white people carry out terrorism is to begin unraveling the entire fragile mythology of white supremacy and the narratives that legitimize oppression.
That our media is incapable or unwilling to do this should tell you everything you need to know.
That our media is incapable or unwilling to do this should tell you everything you need to know.
White supremacy isn’t just carried on by avowed white supremacists. It’s also served by people who are disgusted by those groups and yet continue to cultivate, protect, and maintain the stories and ideology of white supremacy in their journalism, art, and politics.
The difference between “disturbed, lone wolf” white terrorism and “organized, cultural” terrorism carried out by people of color is an unwillingness by white supremacist America to reckon with itself or disturb the brittle mythologies that lie under our facade.
Related, this is also why so many journalists and politicians pay lip serve to human dignity and pretend to loathe economic inequality but are absolutely opposed to any necessary, systemic changes. Their position, power, and wealth relies on that system continuing unabated.
Our problem is that a lot of people who should help dismantle white supremacy and inequality understand there’s an economic benefit to espousing progressive beliefs while acting to undermine them. Until that changes, we’re just fighting symbolic battles in a hall of mirrors.
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