Protests, marches and hashtags do nothing towards the
eradication of racism/white supremacy. At best they force these systems to
adjust and adapt. We often confuse these adaptations (i.e. diversity and
appeals to identity politics) for progress, when the opposite is true. Dr. Amos
Wilson said that when you see Black people rising to the highest levels of
government, the bloodshed
will increase accordingly because now they have
cover.
Racism/white supremacy is like a living virus and politics
can only serve to mask the symptoms of the virus, but will never eradicate it.
In fact, like most Western medicine, it will force the virus to adapt and
become stronger and more deadly.
We have seen these conditions before if we study the arc of
colonialism in Africa and the diaspora, which went from brutal overt oppression
to a more sophisticated and covert form of oppression. European nations eventually
allowed their colonies to vote into power people who looked like the general
population but still maintained total control of these nations. The more covert
and sophisticated a system is, the harder it is to identify and therefore the
harder it is to organize opposition to it. Most people simply seek more comfort
and mobility within the system instead of eradication.
Trump represents a system of white supremacy that is very
overt and crude, therefore, it’s easier to identify and organize efforts against
it because we are on high alert. Obama/Biden/Harris represent the more covert
and sophisticated system of white supremacy.
So if elected you will see everyone go back to sleep, but
the oppression will increase exponentially. (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)
