mastodon 4.7.3The myth of white supremacy is not who you are. It is what was done to you. Why not try life beyond the supremacy myth? Author of The Predator's Table. https://linktr.ee/LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth
You are still here.
Not because the grief has moved.
It has not.
It is the same weight it was last week, the same question underneath it, the same exhaustion of carrying something that has no clean edge and no clear object and no timeline anyone gave you for how long this is supposed to last.
But something is different.
Sharing some Black joy as one of the most revolutionary acts against supremacy, in all its form...this highlights the lie that is the myth of white supremacy.
Because no group of people, in this country, has more reason to be joyless in the face of ongoing harm...and we're not!
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You opened the book because the question would not leave you alone.
You did not expect the first thing you read to be a white man describing what it finally felt like to understand the nature of the enemy he had been to fight for years.
Not the enemy out there.
The one that had been operating on him his whole life without his knowing.
The pressure to conform.
The hierarchy beaten in from a young age.
You have shared more images publicly than you can count. Meals. Milestones. Vacations. Protests. Sunsets. Selfies. You know how to make something visible. You have been doing it for years.
What you have not done, at least not deliberately, is share an image that was not asking to be liked.
Every image you have posted on social media was in a negotiation with an audience before you hit share. Would this land? Would this perform? Would this make you look like the person you are trying to be?
Issue 06 of the Life Beyond the Supremacy Myth newsletter is out.
This one is about self-trust. Not as a mindset shift. As a return to something the myth of white supremacy was specifically designed to take from you, because a person who trusts their own perceptions is significantly harder to manipulate, gaslight, and keep compliant.
You almost put the book down.
Not because it was wrong.
Because it was asking something of you before you felt ready to give it.
And then you read her words.
A woman who did not wait until the uncertainty was gone.
Who described finding a reason large enough to move from.
While the cost was still unresolved.
While she could not yet see where it was going.
While nothing had been guaranteed.
