Who’s Ready to Chip Away at America’s System of White Supremacy?

Author’s Note: I wrote this in 2017 and have only slightly edited it for a Medium audience.

The key to ending racism lies in ending Whiteness. In America, racism literally IS White people. Today, we’re going to discuss a little about how White supremacy started and how you, as a White person, are in the perfect position to help end it once and for all!

The Real Social Construct

You’ll often hear people say that race is a social construct… that we all bleed red and that we are essentially the same when you move past minor physical differences. This is true, but there’s so much more to it. See, it’s actually White people who were socially constructed in order to create a racial caste system in America.

Here’s the short version…

Not long after Columbus lied about discovering America, Europeans and Africans had the same legal rights and worked side by side on this stolen land. This was not the least bit abnormal since in Europe, Africans and Europeans lived, worked and sometimes even intermarried with race not being the huge issue it is today. This is not to say that everyone was colorblind then or that people lived in some blended utopia. Yes, there were people who disliked each other, individually. And…