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So Why Isn’t There A ‘White History Month’ That Trump Can Ban?
Right now in America, every single (soon to be deported) non-black person of color is coming to a brutal realization about a promise they were made of a chance to sit at the table with ‘white folks’, the right folks, a promise to get equal privileges as long as they did the right thing; spoke English without an accent, reject their people, etc.
That promise is a lie and has always been.
This lie was never as successfully sold to black people, especially black women — the most educated demographic in America — who have been forced to see the realities of the whiteness project for the bullshit that it is and for a long time too, having worked alongside white indentured servants back in the day, inside the homes of white enslavers and some even going on to occupy the highest offices in this country.
Here’s the fundamental truth: Whiteness is an anti-human project. In principle, it doesn’t even benefit white folks.
It is a system that ages, impoverishes, and eventually kills everyone who buys into it, initially through mental masturbation by way of made-up but nonetheless, absolutely glowing race science…
