I personally still cannot utter the phrase “BLM.” Not to be dramatic but I think I would rather die.
Excluding going straight for destruction, is the mere act of seeking individual or collective liberation and success in a white supremacist world so dehumanizing that it can never lead to true liberation. Such a quest will always involve either minimizing our Blackness, explaining our Blackness, or questioning it, all of which are dehumanizing.
This applies globally but most obviously in a majority white country like the U.S., where within the majority white population, most fail to even recognize your struggles and fight, while others seek to capitalize off of it, and finally there are those who simply embody white supremacy’s violence. All of which again compounds to your dehumanization.
Ultimately Black people have to liberate Black people.
Capitalism or any system built on white supremacy cannot be the method of liberation for black people, unless we are speaking of its destruction.
Your individual success as a black person in a white supremacist world does not equate to any progress for the collective of Black people globally. It actually condemns you to be living inhumanly forever in a system and culture where you cannot possibly participate as yourself in full. Keeping in mind that the higher go the more that is so and the deeper your contribution in the system that oppresses those who look like you.
