Or Debunking the Fallacy of White Supremacy
I’ve come to understand that there are certain Black people who believe that
white men have super powers, supposedly genetically-inherited, superior
intellectual mind-control techniques that they use to oppress people of color
around the globe. If I understand their assertions correctly, they
believe that white men are capable of controlling the minds of brown people
universally and conversely no one is able to get into their minds, no one is
able to control them because everyone else is under their spell, hypnotized by
their . . . whiteness I guess. Their whiteness is theoretically
impenetrable and renders mere people of color helpless to combat their evil
machinations. It seems that this small faction of Black people believe
that white men possess genetic predisposition to rule the world and, oddly
enough and quite contradictorily, they believe that it is the secret mission of
white men to become Black, or at least commandeer Blackness because they feel
jealous of it. I’m led to believe that they accomplish their mission with
their superior intellect, secret societies, and agendas passed down from white
brethren to white brethren to intricately know the minds of Black folks and to
beat us at our own game. I’m here to say that NOTHING could be further
from the truth.
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Cress_Welsing is
the preeminent black scholar of these types of assertions. If she is not
the originator of them, she certainly is the benchmark Black people use to
quote and or paraphrase their “white supermen” theories. I think it
should also be noted here that the vast and overwhelming majority of Black
people believe completely differently than the above-mentioned theories.
Sadly, most Black people believe in the fallacy of white supremacy but they
don’t have a clue that they do. Most Black people say color doesn’t
matter and sign on hook, line, and sinker for any cliché that white people cast
at them. Most Black people wouldn’t know how to question the status quo
if you paid them. That’s not because we are inherently stupid, it’s a
byproduct of our enslavement where we were taught not to question white people
or anything they tell us. People of color have to believe in the fallacy
of white supremacy, lest you get those pesky minorities who try to buck the
system and talk about racism and the inherent privileges white people have
simply by virtue of their skin color.
First, let’s break it down and establish some truths in these fallacious white
supremacist concepts. There is UNQUESTIONABLY a fallacy of white
supremacy that dictates, rules, and poisons the entire world. It seems
that the smallest population of people have been able to order, control,
dominate, oppress, and manipulate the earth’s resources so that they control
and “own” damn near everything. I say the fallacy of white supremacy
implicitly because it is nothing more than illusion. It’s a fallacy that
they are superior, it’s not a fallacy that they have been able to take their
inflated belief in self and transform that into global domination. Does
average white Joe or Sally believe that they are better than people of
color? Yes, that’s how the game is perpetuated. Average white Joe
or Sally has to believe that history started with their arrival on the planet,
that white people are the originators of the arts and sciences. They have
to believe that whites made every technological advancement. If they
don’t sign on for the belief that whites were smarter, stronger, more capable,
more civilized, more refined, more god-like than any other people, then the
whole house of cards starts to fall. Average Joe and Sally White has to
believe that there is something inherent about them that makes them better,
that makes them more deserving of peace, justice, and liberty than anyone else
on the planet. God is a white man thus white men have to be given more
insight, more leadership ability, more spiritual stuff, right? The air
white people breathe has to be more sacred, the land they live on has to be
more consecrated, more blessed, more protected than anyone else’s land.
Greece has to be the birthplace of the humanities, Columbus has to be the
greatest explorer, Shakespeare has to be the best author, Beethoven the best
composer, Rocky has to be the best fighter, Jesus has to have blue eyes and
blonde hair, and white people have to believe that to be true from the time
they are born in order for the fallacy of white supremacy to thrive.
White has to be right or the entire fallacy of white supremacy crumbles like a
crunchy taco shell on Cinco de Mayo at an all you can eat Mexican
buffet.
Ever watch the news right after some white person has gone on a killing spree
and killed everyone they could? The neighbors all say the same
thing. “Oh, he was so nice. You just don’t think something like
that can happen in this neighborhood.” That, dear ladies and gentlemen,
is the fallacy of white supremacy at work. It is the belief that crime
only happens in Black/Latino neighborhoods. It’s the belief that Psycho
Joe, as everyone in the neighborhood calls him, is a good ole boy regardless of
the fact that he kills the neighborhood cats and drinks their blood because he
has white blood. You see, whiteness equals good in this society.
It’s what children are taught in school, it’s what’s reflected in the media,
it’s the thread that’s woven into the very fabric of how the perceptions of how
the world is viewed. White men who get to decide what is and
what isn’t racist comes purely from the fallacy of white supremacy. It’s
the notion that they don’t have to consider anyone else’s experience or
perspective because what they see, and think, and believe has to be right.
Are there secret societies that have been formed to keep people of color
oppressed? Yes. Do those men have super abilities, do they have
access to mind control techniques that keep people of color hypnotized in order
to exact their plans of global domination? Not exactly. What those
secret societies posses are members who are egotistical and greedy and intent
on keeping their illegitimate power. Their ego is born from this belief
that white men are special, that they have rights and privileges no one else is
deserving of. Their ego is what drives them to steal, rape, kill, and
oppress. Their ego makes them narcissistic bastards who sit around and
try to figure out ways to control the money and power so that it doesn’t get
into the hands of brown, yellow, or (what’s left of) red people. It is
nothing more than their ego that makes white men think that they have more
inherent value than anyone else that has created this false sense of
superiority. Their ego is greater than most white men but it’s certainly
not genetic and it’s not indication that they want to be Black or have a need
to oppress people because they feel insecure because they lack melanin.
From where did this warped sense of self originate? How did white people
first come to believe that they had dominion over the colored people of the
planet? I have no earthly idea. I can’t even begin to speculate. I
do know that it has infected every country, every place white people have been
for thousands of years. What I can do, however, is tell you how the
fallacy of white supremacy has been able to flourish and metastasize in this
country over the last 400 years. There’s no magic to it, there’s no
genetics involved, there’s no secret societal agenda, it’s pure
psychology. Understanding the mind and how it works holds the key to
understanding how and why white people in this country have been able to
dictate and dominate the minds of people of color for over four
centuries.
Europeans saw the beautiful brown bodies of the indigenous people of the land
that is now known as Africa and believed that they were inferior savages.
They assumed they themselves were inherently superior and that is was their
right to capture, kill, kidnap, enslave, and own those people. That
belief, what they thought was truth and knowledge and undisputable fact, is
what created the system of racial slavery in the US that has been unequaled in
the world before or since. They believed that their skin was better,
their hair was better, their features were more attractive; they believed that
their language, arts, customs, religion, and practices had more validity than
anything Africans could contribute. They had a deep-seated need to
control and subjugate and veritably crush the wills of those people of
color.
Africans who were enslaved, those who survived the middle passage were and
transportation to the United States were emotionally, psychologically,
spiritually healthy people. They were capable of making choices and
decisions on their own, forming their own opinions, knowing what it was to be a
human being outside of their enslavement. Slaves born in this country,
those who never knew freedom, were never privileged enough to know anything
other than what the system of slavery taught them. Slaves born into they
system believed from birth that whites were superior, that Blacks were
inferior, and that anything and everything that was good was white. Every
black child born into slavery learned the same lessons, that white was right
and that black was equivalent to evil.
Conversely, every white child born in this country was the beneficiary of being
born in a system that told them that every thing about their life, their world,
their entire existence that they were superior to anyone with color.
(Rather, anything, because they didn’t see slaves as humans) The
prevalence of racism and the systems, laws, and beliefs enacted during slavery
set the stage for every white child to not only believe they were superior but
it was validated (at least in their minds) because anything and everything of
accomplishment was achieved by white people.
Fast forward and the beliefs held by the children of slave owners and the
children of white people in general, whether they owned slaves or not, have
been passed down from generation to generation. The key instruments in
building a child’s self esteem are to shower them with praise and reinforce to
them that they have an inherent worth. Having books, and TV shows and
movies that show children people that look like them builds a sense of self.
Reading children stories where all the heroes are white perpetuates the fallacy
of white supremacy. Teaching children that God in heaven looks like them
validates that white is the baseline, the standard by which everything else has
to be measured. White children, never having read a book about Black
people, never having heard a story of African accomplishment, never conceiving
that anyone other than white people contributed anything to society will grow
up with an inherited and false sense of superiority. White children never
have to wait until the one night of the week when the “white shows” are on,
they never have to wait for the white movie to come out. They have access
to centuries of images of themselves that show them in a positive and healthy
light. So while Blacks have inherited and passed down a slave mentality
(even though we don’t acknowledge or admit it) whites have passed down a slave
master mentality.
Slave master mentality is the mindset of white people who have never once had
to question that people like them have been the masters of finance, industry,
medicine and the arts. Slave master mentality is the mindset of people
who have never once in their lives felt that their skin color was a liability,
something that they had to denounce in order to be accepted. Slave master
mentality is the belief systems passed down from generation to generation that
allows white people to accept that the final authority, the last word, the law
from on high is going to come from a person who looks like them. It’s
that diseased sense of self, that inflated super ego that has created Rush
Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, Sarah Palin and George W. Bush. It’s
what lead Pat Buchanan to say, and moreover BELIEVE, that this country was built
by white men. It’s that isolation from a world where people of color are equal,
that inocular vision which creates the ego of white people who think that it’s
okay to be racist, that they can say whatever they want, to whomever they want,
without repercussion, without censure because they have a birthright to do
so. The fallacy of white supremacy is perpetuated on the beliefs of white
men who think that they have more right to money, power, and control than
anyone else.
While I recognize and acknowledge that the pervasive and overwhelming mindset
of white people in this society, EVEN those who claim to not have a racist bone
in their body, is based on the fallacy of white supremacy, it is just that . .
. a fallacy. White people are not truly superior, they have no super
ability to understand the minds of people of color and mastermind techniques to
keep us oppressed. What keeps us oppressed is our inability to understand
and comprehend our history, our inability to be introspective and examine our
dysfunctions and their origins, and our fear of admitting that we might be
flawed (through no fault of our own mind you). It is far easier for us to
worship a blonde haired, blue eyed Jesus than to change the belief that we’ve
learned from childhood, passed down to us from our parents, and their parents
and their parents before them that black is ugly and bad. What keeps them
in power is their belief that they are superior. They believe it so they
behave in ways that reflect their beliefs. They start wars, they dictate
and manipulate, they work diligently to keep people of color from taking their
power or from becoming equal because what’s been taught to them by their
parents, what their great grandparents taught their grandparents is that white
people have more value. Even if the message isn’t overt, even if the
message doesn’t come from behind the percale softness of a poly-cotton white
sheet, the result is the same. Any white child born in this society has
been the beneficiary of an educational, medical, judicial, legal, and social
system that has placed whiteness on a pedestal, as an entity deserving of
worship and praise. When white people try to silence any discussion of
racism, it’s because they believe that they have a right to say what’s valid,
what’s true, what’s right in the world, that no other experience other than
their own has weight. They see the world through white colored
glasses. In that world, everything comes back to the fact that they have
been validated, reinforced, and reminded every single solitary day of their
lives that white people are great. They’ve never once had to live in a
time or place where white people are not seen as the origin of everything good
in the world.
So in order for white people, the few elites who do have global power and
control, to remain in power, for them to maintain the status quo, people of
color have to be complicit in their agenda. There has to be a population
of Black people who believe that there are white men who possess super-human,
secret Echelon infrastructure powers to control and dominate people of
color. Once we accept that the fallacy of white supremacy is based on
nothing more than the narcissistic, self-centered and childlike behaviors of
men with inflated egos who have the same flaws, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities
as everyone else, then and only then can we start restructuring a world where
everyone is equal. Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney can no longer be
secret society masterminds but they are little boys who were told over and over
that the Lone Ranger was good and that the injuns were bad. They cease to
be keepers of keys to sacred texts that were created in ancient times to
mesmerize the people of color around the globe to goose step to their tune of
supremacy. It is in truth and understanding that we see them as
individuals who were told that God was a white man and that they were literally
created in his image and likeness. Left unchecked, the ego can be a
dangerous tool. Understanding that illusion is the key to our liberation.
The fallacy of white supremacy can be dismantled and destroyed with knowledge
of self, re-writing our stories to include people of color, and dismantling the
notion that white men are somehow in possession of tools that will allow them
to control us. Every human being has the ability within them to crush the
inflated ego of self and shine the light of truth, justice, and peace on the
shadows of injustice that have plagued the world.
Copyright 2009 Scottie Lowe of AfroerotiK
