No, It’s Actually Not Okay to Be White and Here Are 3 Reasons Why

Laura M. Quainoo
4 min readMar 22, 2022

Is that the sound of pearls rolling? Well, let them because I’m just getting started. Here’s the truth about why it’s not okay to be White.

  1. Whiteness Is Not Real

Newsflash, but you weren’t actually born White. I know your birth certificate and your family may say otherwise, but you’ve been lied to. Beyond any social meaning, White simply is not real. It is a category made up out of thin air by evil people who wanted to divide and conquer poor people for capitalism’s sake. These evildoers created Whiteness solely to construct a caste system. People like yourself are not born White, but are assigned Whiteness, which means you were inducted into a nefarious social order at birth. As soon as you become aware of this and say it is okay, you willfully condone and participate in an entire system which assigns greater value to some people than it does others.

2. ‘It’s Okay to Be White’ Is an Alt-Right Slogan

Before continuing to espouse “it’s okay to be White”, know that you are being fooled by White nationalism’s attempt at rebranding. That phrase is not about loving the skin you’re in. Rather, it is a popular Alt-Right slogan purposely meant to sound innocent and innocuous, but the truth is that it’s anything but. Just like its cousin “all lives matter” the “it’s okay to be White” catchphrase is one used by hate groups to drum up support from followers and to recruit new ones. Like graffiti, it is often spotted on stickers and

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Laura M. Quainoo

I write about race, CHOSSA (Children of Stolen & Sold Africans…ie Black people), embracing Africa as our ancestral homeland & other stuff as my Spirit moves me.