We Could Not Be More Wrong

White supremacy and the social imagination

Perhaps it is yet another sin of the white patriarchy, but I feel like I should say something about white supremacy and mass shootings in the United States. Does anyone really need to hear anything from me right now?

This is most certainly addressed to my fellow white men. We have a problem. We have a serious problem of self perception, a false sense of our self importance. We believe that we are the pinnacle of the human creature. We are the ideal human. And those of us who do not hold to the ideology of white supremacy often fall into the trap of assuming that we are somehow more involved than those “creatures” who proclaim the ideology of white supremacy. It is in this moment when we simply repeat the sin. “Behold how much better I am at being white and male than you are, my pitiful under educated brother.”

Do you see it now? Do you see how it repeats itself? Do you see how we assume that somehow the best weapon against white supremacy is the evolved white supremacist?

“Behold how much better I am at being white and male than you are, my pitiful under educated brother.”

What if, instead, we were to come to terms with the reality that we cannot fix the…