How American White Supremacy Gaslights Us and Why Christ Would Not Approve.

Has American white supremacy dulled your senses? Have you forgotten that the extent of the world is brown skinned and lives outside of the United States?

Did you forget?

White supremacy will gaslight you out of your senses if you allow it. People question the reality of white supremacy because the accomplishments of Black people, like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Serena and Venus Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith, George Washington Carver, Kwame Nkrumah, Rosa Parks, and Shirley Chilsolm, (to name a few) have pushed backed and challenged the entirety of this neo-colonial structure.

In this blog post, I argue that the material and social success of Black people around the world has led people to believe that the structures and alters that sustain white supremacy are not still an active force working against the socioeconomic success of Black people in the United States.

I argue that the lasting legacy of white supremacy, as demonstrated by systemic housing and schooling segregation, is still active, and that for structural white supremacy to come to a close, our society must be torn down, bit by bit, and re-built with an organizational framework that actively de-establishes the hoarding of wealth and resources in white American communities, fostering racial, social, and economic equity through a mix of private and public institutions that embody and empower a variety of racial, social, and economic values.

Personal Life and Emotional Experience

There are days when I feel hopeless about my dream to work as a physician. Today, I understand that my dream is deeper than the work, but is a dream to inhabit a land amongst Americans who are not deeply racist and violent towards Black people. I understand now that the hopelessness stems from a collective culture that resists the placement of people of color in positions of American power.

Reflection

What do you think? What ways are you challenging the system of white supremacy?

As a Christian, I root my world-view in the Holy Bible and the life and testimony of Jesus Christ. John 1:12 states: to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

Jesus’ walk in faith pushed back against the rigid social hierarchies, laws, and legalities that allowed Jews, Pharisees, and other “holy” priests to evade a genuine relationship with God. Jesus’ death was a testimony to his faith and fight for truth and righteousness, a truth that is characterized by the equality of all men before God.

I pray that the strongholds of white supremacy and racial prejudice are lifted out of the United States of America. I pray that the American Christianity that is often rooted in the tainted ideologies of white supremacy is torn down and replaced with the true essence of Christ.

-Ashley!