“Good white folx,” it’s now at your door.
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“Good white folx,” it’s now at your door.
The hate.
The coverups.
The justifications meant to strip you of dignity and humanity.It’s ugly. It’s harsh. It’s violent.
But it has always been this way.
For years, I’ve said something many of you did not want to hear: that “good white folx” would eventually find themselves harmed by the very systems, institutions, and policies rooted in the myth of white supremacy that you believed protected you by default.
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“Good white folx,” it’s now at your door.
The hate.
The coverups.
The justifications meant to strip you of dignity and humanity.It’s ugly. It’s harsh. It’s violent.
But it has always been this way.
For years, I’ve said something many of you did not want to hear: that “good white folx” would eventually find themselves harmed by the very systems, institutions, and policies rooted in the myth of white supremacy that you believed protected you by default.
I was challenged at every turn.
You didn’t believe you could be targeted. Which, more than anything, says how little most white people know history.
The myth does not protect “goodness.”
It protects power. And it will turn on anyone it perceives as a threat, real or imagined.
I take no joy in watching this unfold.
None.
But I do hope it forces some of you to recognize that you are out of your depth.
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I was challenged at every turn.
You didn’t believe you could be targeted. Which, more than anything, says how little most white people know history.
The myth does not protect “goodness.”
It protects power. And it will turn on anyone it perceives as a threat, real or imagined.
I take no joy in watching this unfold.
None.
But I do hope it forces some of you to recognize that you are out of your depth.
Far too many of you spent time picking apart the Harris campaign instead of doing what marginalized communities have always had to practice: harm reduction.
Was she perfect? No. No candidate is.
But too many of you could not bring yourselves to stand behind a more-than-qualified Black woman even when the alternative was so clearly this.
This is not about shame.
This is not about weaponizing guilt.This is a reality check.
More of you will be harmed.
Some of you will die. -
Far too many of you spent time picking apart the Harris campaign instead of doing what marginalized communities have always had to practice: harm reduction.
Was she perfect? No. No candidate is.
But too many of you could not bring yourselves to stand behind a more-than-qualified Black woman even when the alternative was so clearly this.
This is not about shame.
This is not about weaponizing guilt.This is a reality check.
More of you will be harmed.
Some of you will die.And those harms will be justified in the name of preserving the myth.
Because the pattern of violence required to maintain it has no limits.
It will not change.
The question now is…will you?
#LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth #ProfitWithoutOppression #KimCrayton
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“Good white folx,” it’s now at your door.
The hate.
The coverups.
The justifications meant to strip you of dignity and humanity.It’s ugly. It’s harsh. It’s violent.
But it has always been this way.
For years, I’ve said something many of you did not want to hear: that “good white folx” would eventually find themselves harmed by the very systems, institutions, and policies rooted in the myth of white supremacy that you believed protected you by default.
Chance The Rapper's new song, The Negro Problem is about just this. I'm a white American citizen, and I know I'm not safe.
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