The Three Pillars of White Supremacy
Slavery/Capitalism (the anchor behind White Supremacy) (Smith)
Blackness is inherently slaveable (Smith)
Racism
Creates a Racial Heirarchy
"Black is at the bottom of the racial hierarchy-at least they are not property" Smith
Racist Feminism Lorde
As a feminist movement, and a society, we fail to educate ourselves and recognize the difference between the white and "Black" woman of experience. Lorde
"Third World Women" (Lorde(
women of color's experiences and perspectives are not being heard and shared.
Current society is expecting women of color to educate us, while we are not giving them a platform, not listening, and just making excuses for our lack of education and knowledge. Lorde
"Women and the "Me too" Movement"
gender based violence that targets black women ()
Bill Cosby
"By human everybody just means white people" (Ferber)
Believing ones group is superior has been seen throughout history, but White Americans were the first to do it (at least on a large scale) to make it purely about race (Roberts)
The Bible (Roberts)
The story of Noah's sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth = explanation for the geographical origins: of different groups of people, one that would later be interpreted by white Americans as evidence of a divine justification for slavery. Roberts
slave did not always mean "black" (Roberts)
Oppression
Heterosexuality
Heterosexuality was pushed onto society as the "right" way to be. (Heterosexual Hsitories)
Black women felt encouraged to be heterosexual because it was one part of their intersectionality that they would not be directly oppressed for.
Men of color on the National Aids Board found themselves fighting racism rather than fighting for Aids so they stepped down (bulldaggers and welfare queens)
Mass incarceration (Cohen)
Men of Color do not feel comfortable wearing face masks during Covid-19 because of criminalization (Opinion)
"Guilty until proven innocent" (Roberts)
George Floyd Shot in 2020
The Karen: The Rise of the Karen
structured on anti-blackness-prisons were predomenantly white before the civil war (Smith)
The prison system is considered "legal slavery", and operates on discrimination, assumed guilt and excessive force. (Roberts) (Smith)
Orientalism and War
The logic of Orientalism
: Sees foreigners not as exotic, but as inferior and as constant threat to "society" (Smith).
Coronavirus related genuphobia (matube-Louie)
Rise of hate against Asian Americans (Matube-Louie)
"Chinese Virus" or "Kung-Flu"- former President Trump addressing the Coronavirus
increased violence against Asian Americans (Matube-Louie)
The Atlanta Shooting 2021-6 Asian Women Murdered
See Asian American's as "Model Citizens" gives the illusion that they can achieve power in our society (Matube-Louie)
This model is used to oppress Asian Americans because it perpetuates a myth that they do not xperience racism (Matube-Louie)
Anti-Immigration movements, specifically target immigrants of color (Smith)
Accents being a sign of lack of intelligence, or a threat. Service people being rude to customers who have accents because they "cant understand". My mom being told to go back to Russia, when she's a U.s citizen and actually from the Czech Republic.
Being told to "speak English this is America" when the USA actually has no official language (WorldAtlas.com)
ICE Raids and Deportation
Justifies war in order to protect us from "enemies"
Iraqi War 2003-2011
U.S.A Military members deployed in over 170 countries since 2000 (forbes.com)
"The United States is not 'at' war, the Unites states IS war" Sora Han
U.S Military occupying 40% of the world since 2019 (Smithsonian)
Uses racial profiling of Arabic people to increase military to "Fight The War on Terror" (smith
Military Budget was $731.79 BILLION in 2019 (macrotrends.net)
Genocide/Colonialmism
Manifest Destiny (Smith)
Indigenous people are supposed to "play dead", and "disappear' into "civilized society" (Smith)
forced assimilation and "whitness" (Smith)
Has been so embedded that society has accused indegenuos people of being "white" -Smith
The belief that it is the White man's "duty" to "civilize" other cultures, that it is for the native people's benefit (Smith)
The Anchor Of Colonialism
Non Native people become the "rightful" Owners of the land (Smith)
Races like Latinx, Arabic, Indian are considered inferior to White people, and a threat yet are still considered higher on the heirarchy than "Black" people (Smith)
How we get sucked in to the 3 Pillars
Non-Native people get to join in on Colonialism and settle native land if they comply. Property is associated with power in our economy. (Smith)
Non-"Black" people are promised they will not be the very bottom of the "heirarchy (Smith)
"Black, Asian, Latinx, and Indegenous people are promised economical and political advancement if they join the military, which contributes to the War to spread "democracy" (Smith)
indigenous people recruited by military to fight the imperial war- promised political and financial advancement (Smith)
society often "dismisses" the stories and experiences of minorities who are not seen as on the very bottom. Their version of racism is often overlooked and seen as "not that bad" compared to some others
Intersectionality: the way in which different types of discrimination (= unfair treatment because of a person's sex, race, etc.) are linked to and affect each other (CambridgeDictionary)
Activism
Call in Culture (Ross)
use love to promote activism
Educate yourself and others (Di'Angelo)
Set a goal for yourself to read a book or liseten to a podcast or a documentary once a month
Find authentic voices-do not just read and listen and watch white profuced products
be prepared to have uncomfortable conversations
Understand the history from multiple persepctivess
Practice (Di'Angelo)
reflect on your own biases and experiences (we all have them!) (Di'Angelo
try to analuyze the behaviors of yourself and others in "normal situations"
question what is "normal"
notice your automatic thoughts and reflect on them
this takes consistendt EFFORT