Content warning: This article discusses racism, racial slurs, and sexual assault.
As a social construct, we are taught to inherit intergenerational hate. When I was in my 20s, a white, third cousin who was a Vietnam vet (mother’s side) told me with a slither of words, “I am lucky to look white and not look like a N***** (Black) or S*** (Hispanic) because he would kill, rape, hang, and burn me in the south. He’ll get away with it because of his white supremacy.”
Since I’ve been in D.C., the scapegoat has been, “I am racist, I am white” because this and past generations are privileged; they have no idea what lived experience of racism is.
Why do I say this? Until 20 years ago, laws such as the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act have been vital stepping stones in protecting humanity in the United States. The whitewashed part of history teaches societal hate and divides us by saying, “Oh, slavery was abolished.” It was not. Indentured servants was and is modern slavery, especially when the plans were changed to, “Let’s dress them up in pretty and expensive attire. Let’s use God and the Bible to control truths.” As a reader you can create a narrative, “I am dismissing racism and slavery;” whatever!!
Here’s a point of view: a month ago the shelter where I lived had the clients say “I am a racist.” The opposing view is I witnessed homeless men hang around the shelter, lure an elderly mentally unstable Black woman behind the shelter, and rape her. Where were the clients and staff then? They did not report the rape or provide assistance for the woman.
No one gets a pass, especially when Black, brown, white or other people who are enablers, rapists, sex offenders, and traffickers call me racist. Don’t hide behind your lack of education and ignorance of your sinful grotesque behavior taking advantage of the mental health community. What does not set you free is the continuous diarrhea of “All white people are racist.”
Actually, RACISM (HATE) is universal in all cultures and backgrounds and inherited.
In my late 30s another white, racist, third cousin told me, “I should date my own kind, not outside my race.”
Inherited teachings are not mine to own. I flipped her the middle finger and said never be in my business. White little boys become angry and stalkers because I choose not to date within the “white chaos.” Anglo-Saxon “men,” I will not entertain the inherited teachings of “white superiority and Black inferiority” when I was graciously taught Black history by beautiful Black women as a child at a predominantly Black school.
I taught myself that social colorism and complexities are not the way of life. Learning about Black history between Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and others helped educate me on why my skin is olive. My father is Black and my mother is white. Even as a child, the Black and brown communities furthered the cycle of hate when they saw me or my parents. Government chaos and control teaches us only Black and brown humanity deals with hate (racism). Due to the lack of education, everyone within their own communities, especially the white community, deals with hate. In the expansion of humanity as one, there is the African diaspora of skin bleaching, like in Latin America, Central America; etc., and the matter of being inherently taught to marry whiter. Then the white passing stories of people such as Anita Hemmings, Harry S. Murphy, Elsie Roxborough, and Anatole Broyard. Another informative piece is Gail Lukasik’s book after researching genealogical records on her mother, who was white-passing “White Like Her,” and also Elie Wiesel’s book “Night.”
I was taught by Black, brown and white professors to think outside the box and never listen to the chaos of whitewashed history. An African woman from Haiti taught me the truth about slavery where their tribe’s chiefs sold their people to the Anglo-Saxon European devils. You see, we can all learn from each other instead of continuing an outdated toxic cycle of hate and psychological stupidity.
Do you know Carolyn Bryant? A young Black boy whistled at a white woman, the white Anglo-Saxon men hunted that little Black boy, his face smashed and unrecognizable.
If I were a racist, where would you be today?
As vendors and readers, you live in Jim Crow psychological warfare. Jim Crow laws in the United States from 1865 to 1968 legalized racial segregation. They use humanity to fulfill their prophecy of… can you see beyond white superiority?
