A Positive Relationship with Whiteness
The first article in a running series tackling the extremely important topic of creating a positive White identity.
We can do this, we need to do this. To understand why, if you stood up at your job and announced to all of the office workers that you needed to have a positive relationship with Whiteness… what would happen to you?
For most of you reading this, you have an idea of the answer. It’s not going to be taken well. In some circumstances, you expect to not just get hard fired, but then our culture will make sure that you never work again. In ANY FIELD.
To give some perspective, a restaurant owner in 2015 New Jersey put out a sign that said ‘Celebrate your white heritage in March, White History Month.’ And the backlash was so hard that it destroyed his business. Whatever the reasoning behind it, a ‘history month’ of an identity is usually an indicator that you want to have a positive relationship with an identity and for the owner, his life’s work was ended. The owner, Jim Boggess, even had a conversation with the original person who complained about it. A conversation that ended in a handshake, an apology, and a friendly discussion. But it wasn’t enough and the last we’ve heard, Boggess is in crippling debt with services being shut off in business and even his home.
Is this surprising to any of you?
On the other end, do you know any company, major figure or such that supports creating a positive relationship with White people or Whiteness? Any at all?
To put it bluntly, there isn’t any other identity group that we approach in this way. Which leads to this.
There is a rapid growth of radicalism among White people, with Homeland Security saying that White Supremacism is now the greatest domestic terror threat and hate crimes reaching the highest level in a decade. There are many reasons why White people become radicalized but the biggest one is that White people are hated and are under siege.
On one hand, you have modern culture at worst drop the hammer on anyone who wants to have a positive relationship with Whiteness. On the other hand, you have radicalized White people whose identity is now based on violence. To be White means to destroy those around you who don’t fit your narrow definition of White.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or even someone who likes to stare at pictures of rockets, to wonder if maybe there is a feedback loop forming here. That there is a connection to these two extreme approaches to the identity of Whiteness and how they cause even more extremism.
This is not some small thing. Especially in a country as heavily armed as America. And with the serious changes going on and the intense partisan division.
Changing our approach and having a positive relationship with Whiteness needs to happen. We must try alternative methods to how we approach Whiteness and White people if we want to build a harmonious multi-identity society. And world. The world is diverse and we have to make it work, America is diverse and we have to make it work.
So consider this the “kick-off” to the “Positive Relationship with Whiteness” series. Our goal is to build a robust mass of thought and perspective on this and then a discussion on actualization to shifting how society approaches Whiteness. Considering 60-90 million White Americans say their White identity is very to extremely important to them, we have a huge crowd of people who care. Now let’s give them something that can help everyone.
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