It is easy to be opposed to discrimination and bigotry.
Anyone can see the abhorrent cruelty. It’s what we call a ’no brainer’.
It is easy to say that discrimination towards another person because of their skin colour, hair colour, eye colour or any other characteristic is wrong.
It is easy to say that bigotry towards another person because of any naturally occurring variation is wrong, that such hatred is based on a lie.
It is easy to say that hating another person because of their skin colour is insane.
Albeism is abusive. Misogyny is harmful. Misandry is dangerous.
Racism is harmful.
These are all rather obvious considerations for most people.
It is easy to be opposed to Racism in principle.
But that will not end Racism. We see the evidence everywhere.
Combatting Racism is another matter.
Dismantling the structures that engender Racism matters, because the way to do this is to be honest about the history of Racism, and to listen to and hear the voices of those whose lived experience is routinely adversely afflicted by structural, cultural and vernacular Racism
One cannot combat and dismantle Racism unless one knows exactly what Racism is.
Racism is a weapon.
Racism is a curated weapon.
Race as a category is a weapon invented by British Plantation owners in the Americas, during the 1640s to 1680s.
There is no such thing as ‘White People’.
Race does not exist.
There are no Races. There is only our human species, with myriad naturally occurring variations that only add to the diversity and beauty of Humanity as a species.
The concept of Race is a cultural invention, specific to a historical situation where the invention was designed with intent to cause harm, to counter dissent and to prevent the emerging solidarity of shared humanity developing into an organised political and social material resistance to that harm.
Race was invented to segregate European indentured workers from African indentured workers in the British Colonies of Virginia and Maryland, on the North American continent.
The concept of Race was invented and institutionalised to divide a multi-ethnic working population, to prosecute a class war.
Ethnicity
There are ethnicities, there are faiths, there are language groups, there are heritage lineages, but there are no Races.
We are a single species, all of us equally human, equally vulnerable, equally fallible. We all bleed red.
Modern medicine, genetics and long lived experience proves this assertion.
I would say therefore that those who identify as White Persons, as separate from others, makes of themselves a weapon. Because inventing White as a category was the first step in segregating our species into White and non-White. Segregation asa weapon in the class war.
In the class war.
What is the class war? The class war is the struggle of Extracted Accumulated Wealth as a Political Social and Material Power, a material hierarchy of value and of violence deployed to maintain its dominance of all the population, in order to maintain itself, enhance its extraction and extend its dominance.
In this context, the official use of the category White Person, White Male, White Female, White Child is weaponised. For the purpose of continuing the class war.
There are no White People in the same way that there is no evidence of God, nor is there any evidence of an after life.
One might choose to believe in either, yet that does not establishment them as factual, material realities. To legislate a God or an afterlife would be considered utterly insane. Freedom of Religion is not the same as Theocracy.
Belief or Reality.
One might chose to believe one is a White person, yet that does not establish Whiteness as a fact.
The identity of Whiteness comes with a terrible cost.
It is a lie that perpetuates a war. A class war. The class war. It perpetuates militaristic wars too.
Every time one claims the mantle of Whiteness, one perpetuates the lie, one arms the weapon.
Even if one considers oneself White and anti-Racist, those who claim White Nationalism arm the weapon.
I am Irish by parents, English by birthplace, a citizen of both lands, humane by self definition, a person of Earth.
Speak fluent English, passable Gaelic, stuttering French.
I live in London. I could be considered as an immigrant.
Economic Immigrants.
There are Irish youth who are, once again, immigrating in large numbers, this time due to economic policy rooted in NeoLiberal ideology that makes their lives very difficult. They cannot see a future for themselves in Ireland due in large part to the housing crisis. They fly out in planes, they move about the world freely enough and they are pretty welcomed where ever they go.
There are Libyan, Syrian, Iraqi, Afghani, Sudanese, Eritrean and other international youth immigrating in large numbers due to wars prosecuted in their lands rooted in neoliberal economic ideology travelling as refugees, seeking asylum and looking for a safe land to work in, to build their families lives in safety.
The refugees and asylum seekers all seek safe routes to safety because the lands they flee have been ruined by warfare, warfare with roots traceable back to Western Hegemony. When those safe routes are block, they move through clandestine routes, which are dangerous and liable to failure. Desperation drives them to take the risk.
There are Indian, Pakistani, Kenyan, Nigerian, South African, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese people travelling to study and work in different countries, for a host of very good reasons.
We are all immigrants, archeologically and anthropologically.
I am not 'White'. I reject the category entirely. I refuse to be made a weapon.
I am Human.
We all are.
Racism is a weapon.
Race is a lie.
Corneilius
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