To be white is not about your skin color but about your ready socialization into a privileged group membership that defines itself against blackness… |
To be white is not about your skin color but about your ready socialization into a privileged group membership that defines itself against blackness, a legacy emerging from an understanding of black bodies as fuel, the needed refuse by which a capitalist, slave labor economy can sustain itself. As long as blackness is its opposite point, whiteness is willing to cross all sorts of awkward ethnic lines in strange, irrational ways in order to ensure its survival.
Ryan Kenjii Kuramitsu, “what we talk about when we talk about whiteness,” A Real Rattlesnake Meets His Maker, October 22, 2015. http://arealrattlesnake.com/2015/10/22/what-is-whiteness/.
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