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theres going to be backlash against racial justice for as long as it takes to actually achieve something that looks a bit equitable toward that end.

white people have been socialized from birth that they are The Chosen People. theyve been fed stories about their own superiority, about how great they are, about how special and magical and universal.

so i mean, of course it makes sense that when they are confronted with the actual truth of what collective whiteness is and has done, how many innocent lives its destroyed so brutally and unjustly it’s going to be hard to see/hear through that to get to a place where it can be discussed rationally.

i mean, the more i learn about european history (and white colonial history), the more blessed i feel to be non-white and the more pity i feel for white people. i cant imagine living with a history like that. i cant imagine how terrible it would be; if i were a white person with a living historical memory and conscience, then i would reject that history because who can objectively be proud of the genocides, the racism, the slavery, the brutal and ruthless and inhumane exploitation of every single people whites came across?

the only way you can celebrate anything about your history when you are a colonizer is to deny the brutalities and inflate the positives. everything about colonialism falls apart when you look more closely. every premise is built on an insupportable and atavistic brute logic and nothing humane or human or just or decent or admirable or moral or ethical ad nauseum.

so really the more ive learned about europeans the more i understand how it is possible that as a collective they were capable of doing what theyve done and why the denial about their ugly side is so vehement. its like being called out if youre a pedophile or a rapist; theres nothing nice about racism, nothing nice about invading someone elses land and genociding them and then thriving off the genocide….its like grave robbing the grave of the person you murdered and then dancing on it.

so really, we need to be examining the neuroses that comes out of whiteness and coloniality because without that important piece we will not be having a coherent discussion of racism and we will stay stuck in the reactionary stage.

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Thanks Marilyn Richards. Absolutely Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are custodians of the land.

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