Moments of Permanence - Miscellaneous Things: Events, Prisons, Racial Identity for White People

From: commodorified Date: July 17th, 2009 07:16 am (UTC) Re: Here via some route I have now forgotten (Link)

I mean, there is also the fact that the two cases:

If non-white people find their ethnicity a part of their Identity,

are not identical - which doesn't mean your point is not right. But Black and Native and Asian and cetera are cultural constructs formed partly in response to and as a means of resisting oppression, and White ... is not. As I say, I'm not trying to disavow the effects of my whiteness, but White Culture as a construct is basically a strategy to grab and hold on to (and, as more and more ethnicities over the last few hundred years have gotten folded into "white", to gain access to) illegitimate power and privilege, and the sooner it's melted down for scrap the better. Let us by all means break 'white' up into several thousand small, limited cultural groups, none of which can exercise that sort of coercive power, and build our large political and strategic coalitions on some other, better basis.

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