On Code Switch yesterday, they were debating how much context to give when talking about racism. Is it better to explain every reference, or just ask people to Google?
They said that having to constantly use the explanatory comma, an inserted clause that explains something you've just mentioned, disrupts the flow.
It got me to thinking:
Does White Supremacy, the system that sees White people as superior and everyone else as inferior, really need to be broken down?
Do we really have to repeatedly explain how systemic racism, the systems that create and maintain racial inequality in nearly every facet of life for people of color, is harmful and needs to be dismantled.
Do ignorant White people, people from European descent who began calling themselves White so they could be superior to people with darker skin, really deserve to be catered to like this?
Shouldn't White people use their White privilege, unearned advantages White people have because they're White, to do their own work and figure sh*t out on their own?
Shouldn't White people remove the burden of education, the expectation that people of color will tutor them on racism, and educate themselves?
Shouldn't White people be better, a more excellent or effective type or quality, and fix the problem they created?