Latonja Sinckler
A compilation of words from White Privilege and Male Privilege by Peggy McIntosh, The Heart of Whiteness by Robert Jenson, and The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audrey Lorde, expressing the sentiments of a world gone wrong.
These words and phrases are not my own. They come from the articles themselves, however I have edited sentences by merely subtracting words and adding punctuations, to create that below.
A lot of what we live is roles. We act this stuff out over and over. You might start as “your nigger” and end up as “that nigger.” You call yourselves the Human Rights Campaign and support Shell. Obliging women not to scream rather than obliging men not to hit. Maybe that’s a clue something is wrong.
Some white people I meet, assume. I have to face that, it’s very disappointing. I am not connected. They show colors by using the word nigger; talking about other people of color. People of color weigh their interests, avoiding issues that reinforce distorted public perceptions. The cost of suppression seldom recognized. The failure to discuss. The issue shapes perception. How serious the problem is white supremacy?
The whiteness erased, and it’s just about … but it’s never just about anything because oppressions and -isms are. Home is a castle a safe haven from indignities of life. Antiracist discourse to regard the problem, countless first-person stories begin with a statement like, "I was not supposed to be..." White supremacy is rarely acknowledged, White privilege, systematic racism. Whiteness erased or we never survive.
We all hurt in so many different ways, all the time, and pain will either change or end.
What words you do not have? What do you need to say? Love matters in this world, claim humanity, dream of being a human being, reject a system that conditions your pleasure on someone else’s pain. Tell me I better learn, lest we waste ourselves- fighting truths.
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